Word: pranking
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...regret that what was intended as a campus prank should have been given such wide publicity. We intended no disrespect to you, your office or the Republican party and sincerely apologize for any annoyance we may have caused. We appreciate your good sportsmanship...
...bill introduced in the New York State Legislature to give the state the right to buy and sell light wines and beer. On the next page, the story of Coast Guardsmen who, drunk on captured evidence, placed a "huge railroad switch tie on the tracks" just for a prank. On either side of this last bit of news, the protest of a New Jersey State Commission against the Volstead Act the demands of the Prohibition Commissioner for wood alchol poison in industrial alchol, and accounts of action to come before the House Judiciary Committee for the repeal of the Eighteenth...
...funny fortnightly) to members of the Yale Record (humorous magazine) at Cambridge, the Fence was miraculously revealed in the midst of the festivities. It was ushered in by "Robert Lampoon," official jester and longtime honorary member of the magazine's staff, with a piccolo. The purpose of the prank was also revealed: to make a picture of "Bob Lampoon" seated on the spot hallowed by Yale's Hickey, Coy, Heffelfinger et al; to publish the picture in the Yale game number of the Lampoon...
When these advertisements appeared, the assistant district attorney in charge of prohibition enforcement refused to take any action against the editors of the CRIMSON and Lampoon, dismissing the whole affair as a college prank. It could not be learned last night if an investigation was now being contemplated, in the light of developments of the past week...
...organization did what they so often have neglected to do and took precautions to avoid even the appearance of evil. Immediately upon receipt of the fence they solemnly swore before the law that they intended to return the relic and so placed its seizure legally in the category of "prank". Few can cavil with the law's definition of the point and even fewer can avoid admitting that as a prank it was more than magnificent...