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