Word: mischiefism
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...will sign a humble policy and remonstrance. Let us have peace and the game. And a pleasing little incident of Saturday's game with Cambridge was the capture of the Harvard goal posts by the conquerors. This is a common pastime of our intellectual youth. The combination of malicious mischief and larceny is irresistible to the academic mind. The Princetonian stand excused, however. The posts were supposed to be protected by a pitiful little band of policemen. That was a challenge not to be refused. The joy of assaulting of fibers of the law was added to the usual diversion...
...legend concerned with one of these Apostles [Judas Iscariot] has caused great mischief. That it ever gained credence does not speak well for men's acumen. . . . There is no exaggeration in saying that this legend, which sets a devil up against the figure of light for the sake of an effective background, has caused hundreds of thousands of human beings to be tortured and murdered...
...Senators from the West are attempting to bring up anything that may impress the electors 'back home,' and even so able a man as Borah allows himself to be drawn into the old forms of mischief making...
...told that more trucks were imperatively needed to transport food supplies, and set to repairing several hundred vehicles from which "strikers" were alleged to have fiendishly removed essential parts. Actually the Government experts had carefully disabled the trucks. The Fascists, peacefully occupied in making repairs, were kept out of mischief...
...never for one moment marred by the slightest ray of intelligence. His ample army pants were held up by a rope around the waist, giving to their lower portions a curious baggy appearance suggestive of small boys in grammar school. He was forever waddling about through the sets on mischief bent, for all the world like a fat sow hunting out choice bits of garbage Without him the picture would be a dud, with him it was able to make this reviewer disgrace himself by getting into a state of weak giggles...