Word: prankster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teacher. In Morristown, Tenn., a prankster took a police prowl car from outside a restaurant and parked it eight blocks away, explained that he thought cops should be broken of the habit of leaving ignition keys in their cars and he just wanted to "teach them a lesson...
...good joke well played. The House member who risked his distinctly non-Hibernian neck to make the Lowell tower glow green on St. Patrick's Day night got a fine letter of recommendation to the Medical School, half of it devoted to that incident. When Perkins learned that the prankster was one of the first from his class to be admitted, he was not surprised. "I know they are always interested in a fellow with ideas," he says with a smile...
...mocking glints of parody, the flashing of rhetoric and the shimmer of wit. Amid such a tangle of traffic lights, traffic itself snarls, detours and halts. In The Lady's Not for Burning, with its medieval echoes and broomstick leaps of witchcraft and romance, Fry could be simultaneously prankster and poet, could spoof the very verse he spouted. But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare down its extravagancies as arrant trespassers...
Coals to Newcastle. In Grand Rapids, Mich., Cornelius Weeda complained to police that, while the temperature was hanging near go, a prankster broke into his house and started a roaring fire in the furnace...
Clue. In Knoxville, Tenn., police tracked down the prankster who had phoned in two false alarms, both times giving his right name...