Word: pranking
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...Harvard students coined a word-"Snooperman"-for the mysterious person who turned books around on their shelves, thus hiding their titles (TIME, Jan. 27), but he was never identified. In February, 10,000 books were turned on the shelves of Boylston Library. After that, perpetration of the prank at Harvard dwindled and stopped, and Harvardmen, with final examinations in the offing, are doing their best to forget. Three weeks ago, however, a Snooperman turned some 24,000 books on the shelves of Seattle College Library in Seattle...
...over a hundred years behind in some of its work, and shows little interest in catching up. That's a long time to let a clock go around with no hands. IS HARVARD SLIPPING? Doesn't the University really care what time it is? Is it just a boyish prank on the part of the Maintenance Department? Or is Harvard too cheap to keep up the clock just because it doesn't face on the Yard...
...Bureau is now handling an interesting child marriage case. A girl of 14 and boy of 15 got married as a prank. They left their home state to get married under the less stringent age limitations in South Carolina, but they never lived together...
...River Rouge, his first stop is the white-walled Boyer lab, which he thinks will soon be the most renowned building on his property. When his tan, lean face bends next to Boyer's ruddy, cherubic face over the desk, they look like two schoolboys plotting a prank...
...this paranoiac prank...