Word: prank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their native songs and in their literature, which dates back to the 6th century poets, Taliesin and Aneurin. Welsh is one of the oldest of all living languages in Europe. Welsh nationalism may be no great threat to the government in London, but it is more than a prank, and it appeals to some felt grievances among its people...
Once, during the abortive 1905 revolution, almost as a prank, young Boris rushed out to display "my tuppeny-ha'penny revolutionism which went no further than bravado in the face of a Cossack whip and its blow on the back of a padded coat." He studied law briefly at Moscow, then enrolled as a philosophy major in Germany's University of Marburg under a pudgy intellectual martinet, Professor Hermann Cohen, a disciple of Hegel and Kant. In the Gothic-fairy-tale mountain town of Marburg, with its steeply sloping streets and medieval gables, his first serious love came...
...latter prank in particular stimulated fresh Administration interest, although the publication denies that these were official stunts...
...Administration has closed the Iroquois Club until June 4 as a result of the bombing prank at Elsie's delicatessen last Wednesday. A bomb was thrown into the building by two Club members who fled into the club, which is located directly across Mt. Auburn Street from the delicatessen...
...bombing, however, was apparently not part of an initiation prank of any sort. The initiation dinner was over by the time the bomb was thrown--approximately 9:30 p.m.--and the Club would probably not have been implicated in any way had not the two men run into the Building...