Word: mischiefism
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...have become for pay hireling agents of mere mischief." The jury, having deliberated 14 minutes, brought in a verdict of guilty; and soon the Lord Chief Justice imposed upon two makers of "mere mischief" sentences of 10 years imprisonment each. Commenting on the trial, Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg vigorously stressed his belief that only part of a general Russian-subsidized spy system had been uncovered. "Unluckily," said he "we have not been able to gather in our net all those concerned, though I trust the result of this trial will make others think before they pursue their dangerous...
...Tenor Schipa took Verdi's libation of tunes and tears, poured it out, an acceptable sacrifice to Emotion. Muzio, as Violetta, erred, atoned and died. Schipa, as Alfred, loved loudly and blindly while Richard Bonelli, benign as the father, rubbed his hands and looked on at the mischief of his own making. The 3,500 in the Auditorium took delight in Muzio's costumes, in the elaborate sets, in the new ballet with incidental dances by Vechslav Swoboda, in boxholder's emeralds, gowns. The ten million got little of the glamour, missed little of the fine, florid...
...Joseph Snyder, two, found himself forgotten. To attract someone's attention he tossed pebbles, large ones little ones at the shiny car of Charles Nash. Soon, in this way, he attracted the attention of Charles Nash who caused him to be arrested and taken to court, charged with malicious mischief. Here, a positive cynosure, Joseph Snyder burbled and gurgitated when the Magistrate Delger demanded that the prisoner be produced. "Where is he?" said the court, "I do not see the defendant." When the defendant, a sticky looking wad held in the arms of Mrs. Snyder, became apparent, Magistrate Delger...
...White House, James Francis Burke of Pittsburgh, onetime Republican whip in the U. S. House of Representatives, wrote such reply as seemed necessary, saying, among other things: "[The American people] have been seeking and are entitled to at least a few months' relief now and then from meddlers, mischief makers and apostles of unrest who have become the bane of our modern American existence...
Secretary Wilbur of the navy seems to regard was as a great big game to keep the boys out of mischief. He says, "We feel that we can build ships that are worthy of the young men from all parts of the country who man them, and to enable them to compete on at least equal terms with the best equipment furnished to any other service. 105,000,000 dollars is a great deal though, to pay for ten floating gymnasia; it completely beggars the paltry thousands it costs to take the Harvard football team to New Haven...