Word: prankishness
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Gradually, as Philip became a fixture in the family circle, his name crept into Elizabeth's tea-table talk. Her friends began to have their suspicions, and often prankish Princess Margaret would infuriate her sister by wondering out loud if Elizabeth's heart was jumping when Philip was due for a visit. Then, last fall, Philip spent several weeks with the Royal Family at Balmoral. By the time Philip's visit was over, Elizabeth's mind was made up, and she told her father all about it. As fathers the world over are prone...
...word in school. Later, he worked as a call-boy on the nearby Texas & Pacific Railway, and punched cows in the summer to earn his way through Simmons College (now Hardin-Simmons University). He played basketball, and ran so many campus organizations that he picked up another nickname, "Ma." Prankish, he liked to set all the alarm clocks in the student dormitory in which he lived for 4 a.m., roll 16-lb. shots down the halls and stairs in the dead of night. The college yearbook, which Gene edited, said of him: "Quiet and un assuming but a living example...
Nuts. In Des Moines, prankish burglars robbed the Hawkeye Nut Co. of $125, mailed the proprietor a cartoon which showed squirrels carrying nuts out of a basement window while a watching policeman telephoned: "Sarge, I've just solved that nut shop robbery...
Double Take. Alike in talent, they are poles apart in temperament. Prankish, pun-loving Grouse is easygoing, Lindsay something of a hypochondriac. Warns Grouse: "Don't ever ask Howard how he feels, because he'll tell you." Lindsay likes a drink; Grouse swore off "in the middle of a beer" nearly 30 years ago. Lindsay loves the country; Grouse loathes it. Lindsay is as nattily dressed as a floorwalker, Grouse as rumpled as an insomniac's bed. Lindsay is too scared of first nights to go, Grouse too curious to stay away...
Biarritz townspeople were at first resentful of the G.I. occupation of loo-odd of their famed hotels and villas, now invite students to dinner. The roulette wheels were stored away at the famed Casino, which became a hushed library supervised by a whispering ex-artilleryman. A prankish billeting officer quartered ten mild professors in what had once been the fanciest whorehouse in town. The professors were bothered almost nightly by old customers...