Word: prankishly
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...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...
Lexington stands 950 feet above sea level in the Blue Grass country, famed for Bourbon whiskey, tobacco, horses, stock farms (Elmendorf Ashland). Near Lexington was born Abraham Lincoln. And once in Lexington a statue of Native Henry Clay was decapitated by a prankish thunderbolt...
...perhaps an accident, perhaps an earned result, that that cynosure of U. S. attention, the Prince of Wales, visiting on Long Island in the summer of 1924, was reported in the newspapers to be using a smart, little-known roadster on his prankish nocturnal visits; a roadster so little-known and so unusual, with its four-wheel brakes and indirectly-lighted dashboard, that the newspapers felt justified in mentioning its name-Chrysler...
Though the stingy businessman's name was concealed, last week, it is natural for German reporters to dub him "Polish," just as Paris and London dailies hang their best anonymous stories on "an American," often when some prankish Argentine or tippling Russian is to blame...
Joyously the Latin Quarter students, who make it a prankish point to always use fiacres instead of taxis, assembled 39 of their favorite and seediest cab drivers at the Porte de Pantin, to greet jovial Red Beard Hartmann when he drove in last week. For the rest, Tout Paris is ever ready to join in good-humored shouts at a spectacle so nice as a parade of 40 old men and 40 old nags up the Champs Elysees and on to the Eiffel Tower...