Word: prankstering
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...several improvements, over past rites; more beer was sloshed around Memorial Hall than ever before, the freshman football team, dressed for the occasion in white waiter's jackets, managed to rough up a few disorderlies and quite a few more gaping bystanders. When all this fun was over, a prankster's bomb exploded in a freshman's face, critically injuring...
...dinner tables. The Bulletin was flooded with long-distance calls from other papers asking for more details. Checking with state police, the Bulletin quickly found out that the story was not true. It had been printed lightheartedly the day before by a Boston columnist, was probably read by a prankster, who phoned it into the Bulletin as straight news. But Bulletin Managing Editor Mike Ogden had no regrets. Said he: "My own feeling is that if a story can be as funny as this, the A.P. ought to go in for this sort of thing more often−always...
...there is anything really worth deploring these days it is certainly the disappearance of Bert Scursey. The telephonic waggery of this inspired prankster, immortalized by Thurber, once drove an innocent Mr. Connor both to of New York and his senses. But now outdoing Scursey, a group of sophomores are capitalizing on a curious accident that has made their room phone number the dial image of Sears Roebuck...
...mystery was up to. I will admit that I do not actually know that he was a Harvard student, and I might say the incident occurred a half hour rather than fifteen minutes before the game began. It has been suggested that this individual may have been a prankster but his serious mien showed no evidence of it and he made his exit through the Harvard portal...
Officials doubt that the horse climbed the staird himself, and head proctor Michael Koplluor suspects it was the work of a prankster. "I don't think it's very funny," said one dour officer who was rousted from bed to help remove the beast...