Word: prankish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shame on Dancer-Painter Losch's prankish first husband (British Socialite Edward F. W. James), who, Miss Losch swears, aged her six years for the benefit of Who's Who in the Theatre and his own husbandly humor...
...nice fantasy idea, handled with a nice sense for prankish complications, A Highland Fling just isn't written with enough gusto or grace. Its romantic moods never quite blend Scotland with fairyland; the thistle is there, but not the thistledown. And its fun is too often tame and even cute - a sort of A. A. Milne version of Tam O'Shanter...
...downstairs bar, a 16-year-old busboy stood on a bench to replace a light bulb that a prankish customer had removed. He lit a match. It touched one of the artificial palm trees that gave the Cocoanut Grove its atmosphere; a few flames shot up. A girl named Joyce Spector sauntered toward the checkroom because she was worried about her new fur coat...
Nobody controls President Quezon, not even Quezon, say the Filipinos. They know. Sometimes they say it with exasperated affection, like Brooklyn people talking about the Dodgers. Sometimes they say it with gleeful malice, as they recount President Quezon's latest prankish maneuver against austere, high-minded Francis Sayre, U.S. High Commissioner. Sometimes they say it with pride-their shrewd, peppery, uncontrollable Quezon, their cleverest politician, their smartest poker player, their smoothest ballroom dancer, their best-dressed man, their orator, their constant winner by overwhelming votes, their patriot, their President...
...Dartmouth a college of hemen. He developed the famed Outing Club, made Dartmouth a power in intercollegiate sports, introduced a new system of selection whereby freshmen were picked not only for brains but for all-round ability. In the '20s, Dartmouth men were the prototype of U.S. collegians-prankish, studiously unkempt, boisterous at football games, busy with campus activities, scornful of esthetes...