Word: impishly
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...Presidential stops will be Houston, San Antonio and Dallas where, presumably on the day that the Republicans nominate their candidate, he will address a rally of 40,000 Texans at the Texas Centennial Exposition. For this simple plan some wiseacres attributed to the President great political astuteness and an impish desire to steal headlines from the Republican convention...
...other sponsors swelled the fund to £70,000. Last week in Montreal landed the first batch of Canadian Fairbridgians, 27 boys, 14 girls, averaging ten years of age. Most of them came from around Newcastle. Solicitous Canadians found them a spruce and keen-eyed but impish lot who raced up & down the deck of their steamer, yelling, pulling one another's hair, tormenting their three chaperones. At the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School at Pemberlea, Vancouver Island, the 41 obstreperous youngsters and the 300 who are to follow them will be gently but firmly reined...
...night at the race track, at baseball games and on the spa's Broadway the hard-working youngsters played spirituals, sweet ballads and hot arrangements of tunes like Dinah and Sweet Sue on their rusty cornets, trombones, French horns, drums. Bystanders were especially taken with Band No. 2's impish 12-year-old leader who juggled his baton, shimmied vigorously...
...newspaper with the world's biggest circulation is published in London: not by the blustery Rothermere (see p. 21), not by the brilliant, impish Beaverbrook nor by the rugged Camrose. Those three -particularly the first two-are conspicuous national characters, living richly in town and country, moving momentously across Britain's political stage. But for publishing shrewdness they all yield to a neat, stumpy London-born Jew named Julius Salter Elias, who sold newspapers on London's streets at 13, never wrote a newspaper story in his life, at 65 is not mentioned...
...shrewd Producer Shumlin (Grand Hotel) knows, plays about homosexuals or children seldom fail. To take the part of impish Mary he looked no farther than Miss McGee who had played in the U. S. stage version of Mädchen In Uniform. Miss McGee, who squeezes the last drop of perverse venom from her characterization, is a reed-slim actress of 23 who can pass on any stage for 13. Born of British parents in South Africa, she was taken to Canada when young, went to the University of Toronto. She has been trouping for four years, is thoroughly sick...