Word: pranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumors about the origins of the fatal scuffle were still circulating here late tonight. If, as some claim, the incident started as a student prank, the question remains: why did the men involved single out Cirrotta...
...begun as an ordinary "rag" (prank)-the sort that Cambridge students have been playing for centuries. Before the night was through, reported the Vice Chancellor, "undergraduates, in disorderly mobs, often several hundred strong, surged about the streets intent upon doing damage ... In Petty Cury they overturned and seriously damaged a car, regardless of the presence of a woman inside . . . On King's Parade, they damaged [another] car, crumpling its bonnet...
Eight Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who plotted to interrupt the Yale game Saturday with a surprise explosion were officially suspended yesterday, and a ninth student implicated in the prank was placed on probation, MIT authorities announced...
Meanwhile, six students yesterday wired the Brown Daily Herald that they consider Brown's suspension of 12 students Thursday "too severe" a punishment. The Brown men had smeared Widener's columns with brown paint, a stunt which the telegraphers called "an obvious juvenile prank...
...part of Jupiter, Paul Sparer has brought an excellent speaking voice and an assured performance that missed few opportunities to play up all aspects of his prank on Alkmena. David Bauman was adopt as Mercury, the pandering, puckish son of Jupiter of an earlier affair. He achieved, through good timing, the proper tinge of irony to his barbs. Though the role of Amphitryon, thanks to the machinations of Jupiter, is relatively small, John Seiler handled it skillfully...