Word: prankster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prankster had placed an unknown chemical under one of the rocks, according to Miss Waldron. "When I leaned on the rock there was a loud noise and my arms began to burn...
...boozy about the down-at-heel in the old days; but at his best, as in The Time of Your Life, he had an alcoholic gaiety and verve, and a real knack for brewing instant-vaudeville. The poet in him might slump or the philosopher babble, but the prankster sufficiently triumphed...
...every woman knows, Prankster Cocteau was defining fashion, not the Suez crisis. Last week, along the Right Bank from the Place Vendome to the little streets south of the Arc de Triomphe, fashion's fever reached its infectious peak in the high-fashion capital of the world. To see the couturiers' fall collections, 800 buyers from big stores all over the world had come to place their orders (from 20 to 60 dresses each at prices ranging from $700 to $3,000). Manufacturers from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue were there to buy dresses for reproduction...
...have learned to ignore his flagrant practical jokes-like the swollen and bloody fake finger he sometimes wears. He has to fight his weight (and at 225 Ibs., the weight is winning). To the casual observer he seems to be a bald and bouncy gladhander, as carefree as a prankster at an American Legion convention...
...Sunday Pictorial (circ. 5,466,255), whose blatant stories about a modern "virgin birth" created an uproar in the whole British press, until Journalist Churchill, under his frequent pen name, Pharos, in the weekly Spectator, exposed the fact that the hard-boiled Pic had been taken in by a prankster. Then Randolph needled the Kemsley Sunday Graphic for announcing, but never printing, a "revealing, exciting, touching" series called "Those Churchill Girls." The reason the series never saw print, suggested Randolph in the Spectator, lay in a telegram he had sent to Lord Kemsley (family name: Berry), reading in part: WONDER...