Word: pranking
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...surprisingly little abuse. The mail brings only about a dozen nasty letters a week (he never replies). None of the old friends he values have cut him. Two boys once burned a cross on the front lawn of his house, but to the judge that was only a boyish prank rather than an attempt to intimidate...
CHARADE. This parlor prank can't decide whether to be a farce, a sophisticated comedy, or an out-and-out thriller. But Gary Grant is in top form, Audrey Hepburn is in gowns by Givenchy, and murder most foul is in full color...
Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).*Guest Stars Richard Basehart and Robert Walker Jr. turn a sidewalk prank into tragedy in "Dust Devil on a Quiet Street...
...student with a twisted sense of humor (and a bulging purse, as Harvard is rather fond of administering fines) could gambol through years of unrestrained practical and emerge without a scratch. the line between the petty prank and the felony that causes the axe to thin indeed. The Dean's Office will only smile sadly at the student who took a month's vacation to in the middle of the term, for attendance as a rule is strictly voluntary. But should a student be at his desk intently studying of Joyce he has taken from the library without signing...
Fifteen fun-loving freshmen staged an ingenious prank last night. It went something like this: these here humorous people snuck into the Union (after it was closed and locked for the night!) and unscrewed a tremendous, ugly cannon barrel from its base, somewhere in the basement of that building. Then, after tremendous exertions, they lugged it upstairs and (can you believe it?) propped it up diagonally in the door to the dining room. Well, everyone was tremendously amused, you may be assured. They all laughed immoderately...