Word: prank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have driven for six years and never harmed even a chicken or a rabbit. My record is clean, and I have been humiliated and insulted by the Government, not for any wrong, but because I thought the signal of a kiddish' looking Secret Service man was the prank of a small boy, I missed the President by twenty feet...
Dorothy Gish 1,004 Lillian Gish 36,967 George W. Goethals 2,719 Prank Jay Gould 196,813 E. H. R. Green (son of Hetty).... 222,712 Walter Hampden 2,718 Will Hays 10,234 Howard Heintz 191,374 Myron T. Herreck 6,929 John Hertz (Yellow Taxi) 8,316 Mrs. John Hertz 5,215 Alanson B. Houghton 32,404 Charles E. Hughes 1,554 Mayor Hylan 0 Al Jolson 33,744 Otto H. Kahn 391,776 Rudyard Kipling 4,998 Sebastian S. Kresge (5 & lOc Stores) 188,608 William B. Leeds 57,445 Florence Pullman Lowden...
...much of it that was quite honestly funny, and the whole of it was done in a free-hearted spirit not always appreciated by those who, like your reviewer, take this world very seriously. After all, why look for blasphemies and insults to good people in an undergraduate prank...
...most appallingly funny thing that has ever been done in a newspaper way. In the issue of April 1 an announcement was made of the lengthening of the Easter Vacation and Dean McClenahan was briefly quoted to that effect. Just to show that it was only a boyish prank, the closing paragraph said: "If any of our readers wish any further information, they are earnestly requested to consult their calendars...
...prank of fate, however, is that the Republicans have planned to make a similar assault on one of their opponents, Earle B. Mayfield, elected Senator from Texas last Fall. About a dozen Democrats, it is believed, will vote with Republicans to unseat Mayfield, accused of the same crime as Mr. Newberry. The expression which will reside on Senator Spencer's face is a matter of conjecture...