Word: pranking
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...school in his native Buffalo and later in New York, and learned to paint compositions of fish and bananas in new and thoughtful poses. His sense of humor could not be stifled, and in 1910, when he was 21 and very free, he eloped with a Buffalo girl. This prank turned out well. Mr. & Mrs. Anthony had two children and Mr. Anthony became a comedian in earnest. After ten years of free-lancing with cartoons and covers he joined the staff of Judge and in 1922 became editor...
Hauptmann's play begins in the forest with Rautendelein and three of her faery ilk; Nickelmann, the old man of the well, all moss and weeds and dripping; a witch whose herbs were powerless against humans, and a mischievous faun whose first prank was to push down into a lake the bell which had just been cast by a certain villager named Heinrich. This Heinrich, like his wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard...
...they are achieving the unheard of, and are bringing joy to the hearts of all Boston fandom. But perhaps the Hindu seer is slightly astigmatic, and just as Stalin and his confreres intend to have no more of the Romanoffs. Washington, Detroit and Chicago may soon tire of this prank...
...Robert Tyre Jones Jr., Jesse Holman Jones, Ambassador von Prittwitz of Germany, John Philip Sousa, President Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange, President Sloan of General Motors, President Coolidge of the U. S. A. and many another personage attended the spring dinner and prank-night of the Gridiron Club (Washington news-gatherers). Politics past, present and future were "horsed" as usual. President Coolidge stayed to the end and made a speech which, under the Gridiron Club's huddle system, might not be repeated or reported...
...well known that Secretary Wilbur likes to think of his bluejackets as a fine, clean-cut lot of Christian sailors who would never think of smuggling girls or women aboard ship, even as a "prank," especially after ten days of shore leave in the Gulf ports. Five years ago, when a seagoing girl was found on the battleship Arizona between New York and Panama, Secretary Wilbur was shocked, embarrassed, furious, and a dozen sailors were court-martialed. Though no announcement was made it was safe to say that last week, as in 1923, every U. S. Navy ship afloat...