Word: prankstering
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...other name would smell as sweet." Mr. du Pont hurried to a telephone, called up the cartoonist at the Record of fice, asked for the original. Canny Cartoonist Doyle, whose pictorial presentations of the du Fonts have hitherto been distinctly unflattering, assumed that he was talking to a prankster, glibly promised to mail the drawing, did nothing about it. Next morning he read in his paper that Mr. du Pont had actually made the request, hastened to send off the cartoon, with his compliments, for the du Fonts' pleasure. Mr. du Pont will frame the picture, give...
...musical setup in Hollywood is saner now than New Yorkers might gather from the stage parody in Boy Meets Girl, in which a prankster buzzes for a composer, demands and gets a roundelay in 15 minutes. Composers and lyricists now attend conferences with producers and directors, receive specific assignments that take into consideration the personalities of the performers. One constant reminder is that a song must be catchy enough to impress on first hearing, as did Cheek to Cheek in Top Hat, Alone in One Night at the Opera...
...Cambridge, Mass., Sophomores Alfred Bunch and Frederick Naegle at Massachusetts Institute of Technology returned from a weekend to find an old Ford truck standing in the centre of their fourth floor room, brought in piecemeal and assembled there by prankster fraternity mates...
...fled to the U. S. in a hurry to escape arrest for fraud. More quaint was the other "Ethiopian" exposed in Tokyo last week. On removing from his face a mixture of soot and cold cream, police discovered that they had a Japanese college student. Taro Yamada. No prankster, Mr. Yamada had turned himself from yellow to black because he believed that today an Ethiopian would prove irresistible to the Japanese waitress of his desires...
...some sharp-eared master hear and spring out to stop them. They were running away from school, out into the world where they would ship to sea as cabin boys! Wait until Hotchkiss heard about that! Students Wetter and Newberry were roommates. Student Newberry had some fame as a prankster. They were both tired of going out for sports under the hard-driving supervision of "Monnie" Monahan. However dignified and cultured ''The Duke" (Headmaster George Van Sant-voord) might be, they wanted no more of him. They were fed up with the classroom tyrannies. Besides, Students Wetter...