Word: mischiefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...rose Mr. Rockefeller, his esthetic face long with mock seriousness, his eyes laughing with mischief. He told his thousand auditors that Dr. Fosdick, just back from Europe, had attended a meeting of the building committee the day before, had examined the building plans, had expressed fear that the church would be so long that the preacher's voice would not carry to its depths. He was told not to worry, that of lesser concern than the length of the church would be the length of the sermons. The dining Bible students laughed heartily...
MUSICAL Maidens, melody and mischief are most agreeably combined in: The Cocoanuts, The Student Prince, Tip-Toes, Sunny, The Vagabond King, Artists and Models, No, No, Nanette...