Word: mischiefism
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About "Old Diplomacy": "The talk about 'old diplomacy' and 'new diplomacy' is little better than useless chatter. So far as it leads people to look for safety in new methods, it is a positive hindrance and mischief. . . . What is diplomacy ? . . . Business men use it in transactions with one another . . . every committee uses it. ... It is called 'diplomacy' when Governments, which are the executive committees of nations, are dealing with each other, because it then has certain forms. Representatives of Governments call each other Excellency, and so forth. . . . The honest man could and did play...
...been levitated by an infernal agency. Then it was noticed that four bronze statuettes had disappeared entirely. Detectives investigated, apprehended a ragpicker and three lads of 15, his Janissaries. This individual, coveting the statuettes, had sent the scalawags to cadge them, instructed them to perpetrate malicious mischief upon The First Man that it might the pore fittingly become his junkshop. A curio dealer named Vialatte had received the stolen properties. All were jailed...
Moreover what do they do at the back of the room when no one is looking? Of course it's impossible to keep watching them all the time, but there is always the feeling that they are getting into mischief back there. Towards the close of a long examination they start nudging one another and giggling, and disturbing the scholars. There ought to be some-one around to take care of the proctors...
...Riffian border. That is, unless Spain steps into the breach and lends a hand. The Riff was ceded to Spain on the express understanding that she keep the turbulent tribesmen in order; needless to state, she has never succeeded in keeping Abd-el-Krim's hoodlums out of mischief. The French command may not send a shell, man, or plane across the border to destroy the Moorish bases, and it would be a very simple task, without violating the treaty agreement. Similarly, they can not blockade the Spanish ports of Morocco to prevent the steady traffic in arms by which...
...contract to carve the figures of Generals Lee, Jackson and their armies on Stone Mountain was canceled, how he pounded his models into bits with a hammer, secretly, and fled the state, how he was billed through four states, pursued, arrested in North Carolina on charges of malicious mischief, released on a writ of habeas corpus, has been told (TIME, Mar. 2, Mar. 9). Last week, Borglum little relaxed his activity...