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Word: pranksters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

Clue. In Knoxville, Tenn., police tracked down the prankster who had phoned in two false alarms, both times giving his right name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 3, 1950 | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...Including Reader Bunker, 18. Composer Dallapiccola adapted his libretto from two works: The Torture of Hope, and some of the more sinister legends of 14th Century German prankster Till Eulenspiegel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...child, and she expands with pride when Portius makes a fine speech. Portius is a stout character himself. He survives the cholera, though his only medicine is red pepper and asafetida pills, because he is too "preserved in alcohol to die." When he becomes a judge, agnostic and prankster that he is, he secretly replaces the court Bible with Arabian Nights, by which everyone swears as devoutly as before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Taming of Ohio | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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