Word: prank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which to launch a jocose and humorous sales argument," had obscured the record he won on the battlefield, she took her case to Arnold Furst, Manhattan lawyer. Lawyer Alan Fox will represent Colgate & Co. The two counsels were 'classmates at Yale in 1903, partners in many a college prank...
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...whirling propellers and perform in the path of descending planes, this flyer, one Waldo Robey, pilot of the Porterfield Flying School, took him 800 feet up in a plane, dropped him overboard. The diminutive body, smashed to pulp, buried itself a foot deep in the earth. . . . "Just a little prank," said Pilot Robey, grinning uneasily. E. E. Porterfield Jr. (head of the Porterfield Flying School) heard of the act, frowned, called Robey to his office, dismissed him from the school...
Just 50 years ago this month there appeared on the Harvard campus the first issue of the Harvard Lampoon, the prolific forebear of all the other college comics and of "Life." From this tiny prank of several Harvard Seniors in the year 1876 have sprung at least two mighty magazines, a hundred college comics, and a profitable industry engaged in the democratization of humor originating on college greens and in smoky offices of college comics. Certainly Lampy did not anticipate such an outcome of its modest first issue, admittedly the only one planned at the time. But the good idea...
...merrie England" did have a sense of humor, and that man was the very imaginative and reverend. Father Ronald Knox, radio broadcaster extraordinary. Although this is a rather conclusive indictment of English humor, few Americans would answer for the unanimity of laughter, if such a prank were played in Boston...