Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this paranoiac prank...
...Germany, where the people are always commanded to drop whatever they are doing and cluster around when the Führer makes an important speech, a German springtime song, All the Birds Are Here Again, suddenly came over the air. Many Germans thought that an April Fools' Day prank was being played. In the U. S. announcers quickly explained that the Führer's speech had been unavoidably cut off. A rumor that the Führer had been shot even circulated in Manhattan...
Chief Leahy sent the bomb to Captain Van Amburgh, State ballistics expert, for examination. "This was definitely not a student prank," commented Leahy. "There was a vicious motive involved...
...accomplish something is to strike while the from is hot. No doubt the Committee for Pan-American Scholarships was aware of that fact. And yet the iron appears to be too hot. The College has the conviction that the drive is not quite straightforward, that it is almost a prank. Whether or not his is the case, the subject is far from inopportune, and for that reason it is regrettable that the timing is poor...
McNamara was pretty sore at one prank, he declared. "My home was visited, apparently by Harvard students, and they left a little black and white animal in a box. I am asking Postmaster Tague to investigate all those pranks...