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Word: pranks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school principal and later Superintendent of Education. Son Harry was the best pupil in town. He won countless prizes, especially for oratory. Once he & friends removed the clapper from a Methodist Church bell and, baffled by the Presbyterian clapper, left it wrapped up in their clothes. But such a prank, except for indicating energy-voltage, was not typical of young Scholar-Orator Fosdick. who knew what he wanted to do and was well on the road to doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Riverside Church | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...regret that what was intended as a campus prank should have been given such wide publicity. We intended no disrespect to you, your office or the Republican party and sincerely apologize for any annoyance we may have caused. We appreciate your good sportsmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hugo N. Frye | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...bill introduced in the New York State Legislature to give the state the right to buy and sell light wines and beer. On the next page, the story of Coast Guardsmen who, drunk on captured evidence, placed a "huge railroad switch tie on the tracks" just for a prank. On either side of this last bit of news, the protest of a New Jersey State Commission against the Volstead Act the demands of the Prohibition Commissioner for wood alchol poison in industrial alchol, and accounts of action to come before the House Judiciary Committee for the repeal of the Eighteenth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOW IT CAN BE TOLD | 2/6/1930 | See Source »

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