Word: impish
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...took an impish delight in telling stories, then shaking his finger in my direction:"You can't very well use that one in print, Mr. Farrar!" There seems little reason, however, why I cannot use his pronouncement concerning the Drama of the present?a pronouncement which will have more value to you, if you have Professor Matthews' background before...
Beggar on Horseback. George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, authors of Dulcy and To the Ladies! have gratified even more than usual their impish itching to scalp the tired business man and expose his lack of brains. In Beggar on Horseback they have indulged their suppressed desires by murdering him. Their instrument of vengeance, an impraetical young composer, leaves no doubt of his pique by wiping out the stodgy manufacturer and his entire wealthy, babbitt family...