Word: mischiefs
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...utilities company, he had demanded that P. S. C. pay $150,000 for the privilege of stringing its wires over one corner of his tiny truck farm at Scotch Plains. Refusing a State condemnation commission's award of $800, he had served six months in jail for malicious mischief, defied an injunction ordering him to cease tampering with the wires, resisted repeated attempts to serve him with a warrant for contempt of court. But on the last of those attempts, last autumn, a party of deputy sheriffs had killed his wife Sophie. Now four of the deputies were...
Little Rudyard, "The Beetle," was sent to be educated at Westward Ho! (a quiet English town). In Stalky & Co he has chronicled his teen-age mischief there. Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville is today so proud of having been the original "Stalky" that he has called his two books of memoirs Stalky's Reminiscences and Stalky Settles Down...
Unlike German Fascists, Lawrence Dennis makes no appeal to anti-Semitic prejudices, nor does he denounce "international bankers and Marxists" as the cause of all the mischief in the world. His chief opponent is liberalism, which he variously describes as muddled, sentimental, irrational. Believing that a major war will break out within five years, he holds that "liberal capitalism'' will involve the U. S. in the conflict in much the way that the U. S. joined the Allies in 1917. About equally divided between attacks on prevailing economic fallacies and less precise descriptions of the future dictatorship...
...inaugural had mysteriously disappeared. The Philippine constabulary strongly suspected they had been filched by Sakdalistas, proletarian radicals who staged a bloody uprising few weeks before the Filipino people went to the polls last May to approve the new Constitution. Now the Sakdalistas were plotting heaven knew what mischief in the Commonwealth's first hour. Taking no chances, the constabulary and a detachment of U. S. troops drew up in a hollow square which kept nonofficial spectators a full 60 yd. from President Quezon as he was sworn in on the steps of the neoclassic Legislative Building...
...addition to his contempt order he had two new warrants, one calling for the arrest of John Crempa for malicious mischief, another for Mrs. Crempa's arrest on charges of assaulting sheriff's officers (during the surveying party ruckus). It was easy to pick up John Crempa's son on a contempt charge last week at the riding academy. The next afternoon the sheriff sent eight deputies to seize the bodies of John and Sophie Crempa. As usual the Crempa grounds were deserted, the house looked vacant, the blinds were down. The posse's commander...