Word: impish
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...most famous son of Collodi, an outlying district of the Tuscan town of Pescia, was a mischievous, woodenheaded youngster named Pinocchio. Ever since Author Carlo Lorenzini, writing under the pen name of Carlo Collodi, created Pinocchio 73 years ago, the impish antics of the bad puppet who became a good boy have delighted children the world over. Two years ago, Pinocchio added another measure to his fame. Professor Rolando Anzilotti of the University of Florence defeated his Communist opponent in the race for mayor of Pescia by promising that, if elected, he would see to it that a suitable statue...
...Ohio, Stevenson will get little help from impish, blimpish Michael V. Di Salle, onetime Price Boss now running for U.S. Senator against the incumbent John Bricker, who is probably the best vote getter in Ohio. The G.O.P. ticket is further buttressed by the candidacy of Bob Taft's brother Charles for the governorship now held by popular Democrat Frank Lausche. If anybody can beat Lausche, Charles Taft...
...directors cast neither a girl, a child, nor Mickey Rooney as Puck. Instead, they gave Bryant Haliday the part and he does an admirably impish...
Through it all, leaping, swimming, scaling walls and trailing broken hearts,"flashes "Desired of Damsels" Tony Curtis, born to the purple but kidnaped and reared as a thief. With the help of an impish girl thief (Piper Laurie), who can wriggle through the treasury's barred window, Tony outfoxes and outfights the usurper to win back his rightful place...
...Lady's Not for Burning (by Christopher Fry; produced by Atlantis Productions) is laid in the Middle Ages, written in verse, and rife with imagery. It sounds like dust and cobwebs; what it turns out to be is a broom. With great impish strokes and elaborate flourishes-and winking and singing as he works-Christopher Fry (see below) sweeps the prosy and the plausible off the boards for an hour. It is the performance of a fellow who not only knows how to handle a broom, but at intervals can ride off on the broomstick...