Word: prankishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early summer James P. ("Jimmy") Donahue, fabulously rich & prankish young Woolworth scion, thought of a good joke he could play on his cousin, fabulously rich & serious Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. His friend Marilyn Miller got Chorusman O'Brien to let him take a part in As Thousands Cheer one night. At the proper moment, when Marilyn Miller was impersonating Barbara Hutton in a skit, ''Jimmy" Donahue minced onstage in a princely uniform, fawned over the lady's hand. No one in the audience noticed the substitution, but it was the last straw for the managers...
...neither at St. Paul's School (Concord) nor at Harvard. He was shy. and had too much money to work out of it the natural way. His early habit of entertaining the boys to win them stuck to him. The striking things about Hearst's prankish, college days, which were twice interrupted by "rustications," were his comparative sobriety and calmness at the centre of the whirlwinds he created, and his real interest even then in publishing. He haunted Boston newspaper plants. He made the Lampoon not only funny but profitable. And he decided Joseph Pulitzer's sensational...
...Lenin is prankish Sir Oswald Mosley, rich playboy politico. Deserted by Oliver Baldwin and by his wife (Lady Cynthia Mosley M. P. excused herself from seeking re-election "on account of poor health"), Sir Oswald put-18-queer candidates, mostly athletes, in the field. His star candidate: "Kid" Lewis, whilom English middleweight champion, a pugilist of no political experience who will contest Whitechapel where he lives, is popular with the rabble...
What becomes of youngsters convicted under the Mann Act for their interstate sex experiments, of prankish urchins who break open a freight car or filch stamps from a rural post office...
...famed prankish chronicle Peck's Bad Boy was written in 1883 by George W. Peck, in whose Milwaukee Sun the chronicles first appeared. In apology. Humorist Peck said of his Boy: "But he shuffles through life until the time comes for him to make his mark in the world. . . . Then those who said he would bring up in State Prison, remember that he always was a mighty smart...