Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having shot them all dead. It subsequently develops that the parties had just knocked off an armored truck full of bookmakers' money and were waiting to see Marco about an old matter involving a hijacked brewery. It occurs to Marco at once that it would be a funny prank to distribute the cadavers over the lawns of various visitors at the resort who have in times past offended him. All this becomes vastly complicated when Marco's daughter suddenly returns home with the news that she is engaged to a rich young aristocrat from Dutchess County, and when...
...Roosevelt had just been informed by Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House, that the letter asking him if he would permit the trouble-some Lowell House bells to be named for him, was an undergraduate prank. Consenting to the publication of the correspondence, he wired: "In spite of it all, the next time I go to Cambridge, I propose to listen to those bells...
...warm acceptance to Professor Coolidge, saying lie was "delighted and greatly honored." Mr. Coolidge, to whom the idea had apparently never occurred, found that the terms of the gift made this solution impossible, and was forced to write his former pupil that he had been the victim of a prank...
...remarkably late hour last night, the steamroller had not been towed away, neither had the malefactor presented himself to the indignant Colonel. However, the alert student body had begun to suspect that the deed was but a prank on the part of one of Harvard's inveterate wags...
...Maridell Inn. Restaurateur Strohmeyer and two companions made their way to the sign, yanked it down, drove on in high spirits. On a street corner in Spring Lake a patrolman found them few minutes later gazing happily at a bonfire blazing from the splinters of the sign. For their prank Funster Strohmeyer & friends divided a fine of $75 and $19.50 costs...