Word: pranksterism
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...absence of one Mr. Harper they move into his apartment, smash a priceless ship model, pilfer and pawn an invaluable Stradivarius, appropriate $200 Harper has left in Bing's care, finally burn up the apartment, for which Bing has forgotten to mail the insurance policy. "Anyway," says one prankster, "Mr. Harper still has his life." It is distinctly not funny. The only one who manages to smile at it all is incomparable 17-month-old fugitive from Naziland, Baby Peter B. Good...
Five hundred students lost an aggregate of 80 studying hours, and the taxpayers of Cambridge saw $600 go out the window as a prankster, assumed to be from the Lampoon, pulled two false alarm bells just outside the Monstrosity of Mount Auburn Street at 8 o'clock and again at 10 o'clock last night...
Last week another air-minded prankster, Air Insuranceman Jerome ("Jerry") Lederer, launched what may become 'the Quiet Birdmerrs feminine counterpart, dubbed it "League for the Wives of Men in Aviation, Poor Things," issued a manifesto. Excerpts...
Chained doors confronted History 1 students yesterday morning when they tried to leave the New Lecture Hall after Professor Michael Karpovich's lecture on Italy. Some prankster, suspected to be of Freshman origin, had passed shackles through the handles of the Building's great oaken doors during the 9 o'clock session, thus virtually imprisoning 400 men at a stroke. After the first panic several bulky upperclassmen broke the portals to kindling-wood, and the assembly surged through the splinters to freedom...
...forgotten man of Funk & Wagnalls before he struck out for himself. While the Literary Digest sickened under Co-Publisher Robert J. Cuddihy (who had acquired 56% of the stock), Wilfred Funk had to amuse himself with such unprofitable pastimes as compiling a dog dictionary, getting a reputation as a prankster (he tore small towels to shreds) and writing a batch of light verse. Sample...