Word: impishness
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...plasters should be applied delicately to the pit of the stomach. Wrote impish Mr. McAndrew: "Closer than a brother will this preserver of composure cling, even through your daily baths, until, at last, on terra firma once more, there comes the quick sharp pang of parting...
Finally, what was once the impish and diverting anti-U. S.-ism of M. Balieff has soured into an apparent U. S.-phobia. Two years ago in Paris, the attack could be seen coming on. Spleen and scorn for les Americains, who had been fools enough to make M. Balieff rich, were explicitly on his lips in Paris. Last week, in Manhattan, they lurked in his innuendo, deadened the jollity that once beamed from his round Cheshire-cat-face...
...seizing British and Dutch ships on the ground that "personal enemies of myself are being nurtured in British and French Guiana;" and 3) grossly insulting the French Government by refusing to allow their Minister to Venezuela to land, "because I suspect that the fellow has yellow fever!"-an impish charge unsubstantiated by any fact...
...satires were of an upper class, ranging from competent to superlative, and the fleet manner in which they sped along made Mr. Cochran's London revue one of the merriest, of its closet type. Mr. Coward was not, however, so brilliant as a musical comedian. Unendowed with the impish attributes of a clown, his efforts were slightly laborious, and he sang in a weedy voice and danced with small facility. But when he grew dramatic in a tragic number reminiscent of his famous "Poor Little Rich Girl" he stirred his audience to transports similar to those he used to arouse...
...name of Man does not derive from its limited fauna but from the Latin name Mona. Its people are tall, Celtic, peaceable. In their looks there is none of that impish cruelty which is supposed by many to account for the condition of their cats. One of these last, a baleful creature with listless and ungraceful motions, attended the congress of the Manxmen, in the capacity of mascot...