Phil in SF quoted His Family by Ernest Poole
The old familiar headlines were reappearing side by side — high finance exposures, graft, the antics and didos cut up by the suns and daughters of big millionaires; and after them in cheery succession the Yale-Harvard game, a new man for the Giants, a new college building for Cornell, a new city plan for Seattle, a woman's senator in Arizona and in Chicago a "sporting mayor."
— His Family by Ernest Poole (65%)
new vocabulary: dido
A mischievous trick or prank.
