Word: pranksterism
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Police have taken the bomb's remains to the State Police Laboratory in an effort to discover its origin. They provisionally attribute the bomb to a prankster's attempt to re-create the excitement of the January 9 robbery...
...Jest. Near Bursa, Turkey, two passengers jumped from a speeding bus when a prankster, riding along in a coffin, raised...
...entire north wing of the building was materially damaged by the blast, and the furniture in several of the rooms was totally destroyed. Though the culprit responsible was never caught, startled College authorities surmised that some prankster, underestimating the potentialities of his boxful of gunpowder, had placed the bomb in the cellar, with its fuse, long enough to permit escape, running out the window...
...biography it's bigoted, irrelevant, and untrue. Nobody acts. And it was cast by an anonymous prankster with a macabre sense of humor, who must have sniggered as he conjured up Henreid, Hepburn, Daniell, and Bob Walker as grotesque caricatures of Robert and Clara Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms. By all the orthodox criteria of movie criticism, "Song of Love" is eminently eligible for that glib type of verbal massage so familiar to readers of Wolcott Gibbs...
...convention wore on, women began arming themselves with water pistols of their own (a favorite weapon: a pistol guaranteed to produce a hundred and fifty 25-ft. squirts) and engaged in duels with their tormentors. A Legion prankster who waved a dry but dangerous-looking red paintbrush in women's faces was clouted with an umbrella, several handbags, and a high-heeled shoe. But the Legionnaires welcomed competition with disconcertingly uproarious laughter, went right on gulping from pint bottles, dropping water bags and emitting an odd war cry: "Hya, Queenie, Queenie, Queenie-best old dog you ever...