Word: imp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play jogs along, one catches oneself thinking of Chaucer and wondering why. Perhaps it is the breathless jostle of bright costume and eager garrulity, the sheer impetuousness of movement as such, the merrily malicious person of our playwright-imp teasing here, pricking there, now poking a goodly joke if the ribs of conscience, now playing hide-and-seek with a smug morality, always exposing to laughter the foibles, the vanities, the littlenessesses of our too human nature...