Word: pranking
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While passing judgment, Judge Lack commented, "In view of the fact that he is attending college, he should have known better than to carry out such a prank...
...order in Cambridge, which are uncordial at best. These relations have not been eased any by the patrolman's assurances that he would have shot the candidate down if he had had a clear shot. If the city administration attempts, as it may, to equate the Lampoon's prank with the death of the MIT fraternity pledge and tries to make an example of the poor Poonie, hostility between town and gown will reach the level attained after 1952's Pogo riot...
Dressed in blue jeans, an old shirt, and red loafers, Agatha looked quite real and quite dead. Passers-by took the corpse as a Halloween prank. The Moors girls merely smiled, muttered strange incantations, and sped off on their broomsticks...
Williams has dug into the prose, focusing every sharp-eyed, cockeyed image, finding a broomstick for every daffy, airborne prank, split-seconding every sottish or schoolboy joke...
...Wells' War of the Worlds. Of the estimated 32 million people who listened to the thirty minute broadcast, nearly a fifth were sufficiently frightened and gullible to take measures to ensure their survival. In the meantime, CBS and the FCC shared the horrors wrought by Orson's Hallowe'en prank...