Word: joker
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...reporters, well-pleased, withdrew. As the door clicked behind them, the young man leaped from his couch, began hurriedly to dress. Then he skulked to the deck and vanished down the gangplank. He, nameless practical joker, was an impostor. The real George Gershwin was in the smoking-room...
...brief want ad in a morning paper that has kept all Randolph Hall receiving mysterious telephone calls throughout the day. It was but one of some half-dozen similar notices which have caused many a puzzled undergraduate to invent fabulous stories for the benefit of applicants. The practical joker has not been found...
George M. Cohan in a special article written for the Chicago Tribune has shown unsuspected generosity and devotion to Harvard. Discussing Harvard's loss of Professor Baker, this inveterate joker turns tragedy into farce, and concludes: "If there is anything I can do to help Harvard.... I'll be only too delighted to hop on to Cambridge once or twice a week with my dancing shoes and give the boys buck and wing lessons...
Died. Brian G. Hughes, bank president and practical joker, in Monroe, N. Y. Once he entered a ten cent tomcat in a national show, won a blue ribbon...
...created-the Bank of New York, sponsored by Alexander Hamilton. Burr wished to create a rival bank, but owing to political conditions he knew he could not get a charter directly. He accordingly organized the Manhattan Co., ostensibly to engage in supplying fresh water to New Yorkers. A "joker" in the company's charter, overlooked by the Assembly, permitted it to enter the banking business as a sideline. Promptly when the charter was granted, the water business was abandoned and the Bank of the Manhattan Co. was established. If the Manhattan absorbs the young foreign bank, it will widely...