Word: prankishly
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...usual when victory is in the air. Winston Churchill was as jolly and prankish as a boy on a picnic. Touring the conquered Siegfried Line, the Prime Minister gaily flicked ashes on the futile, grey-green, concrete dragon's teeth which Hitler had set up to keep tanks out of the German heartland. There were hints-decently obscured by censorship-that Mr. Churchill may have expressed his contempt in even more emphatic manner...
...platform, shaking hands with the glittering stars, even Tom Dewey became so excited by the tumult & shouting that, in an unusually prankish gesture, he tossed his grey Homburg a full ten feet into the hands of a waiting bodyguard...
...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...