Word: puckish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bambi is the star, but a puckish, toothy, yellow-nosed rabbit named Thumper almost hops off with the picture. He is a first-rate example of Disney's genius for creating an illusion of reality only to turn it into a fantasy. Thumper goes along being all rabbit, suddenly does something purely human. The shift is hilarious. Thumper's chief accomplishment is a hereditary talent for thumping his long left foot against the earth, a log, or anything else, with the staccato crack of a tommy...
...husband, and succeeded in making himself so thoroughly hated that some of the audience applauded his gruesome demise. But the all-important part in the play is that of Jessica's brother, Damon, director and leading man in her new show. Philip Huston appears in this role of a puckish young man taking time off from his women and his beer to straighten out his sister's life. It is the best performance of the evening and will bring great pleasure to every observer. The nine other members of the east complete a very rosy picture, particularly Naacy Duncan...
...neat device, Showman Cohan (James Cagney) tells his life story to Franklin Roosevelt (Captain Jack Young) in the White House, where he is summoned to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. It is the story of a cocky, puckish, talented Irish-American, who accepted the accident of his birth on July 4, 1878 as an implied command to wave the Stars & Stripes forever. Critics called the act corny, but audiences recognized it for what it was: a born showman expressing a sincere emotion...
...spotlighting forced saving: 1) Leon Henderson, OPA price fixer, talked ominously last February about the "inflationary gap." This year, said Henderson, in round figures, our spendable national income will amount to $80 billions. Only $65 billions of consumable goods (1941 prices) will be available. 2) England's urbane, puckish, innovating economist, J. M. Keynes, originally detonated the deferred-pay bombshell in November 1939. The Exchequer pooh-poohed Keynes in 1940, but put a part of his idea into the 1941-42 budget...
Walter Huston plays the Devil with demoniacal glee. Disguised as Mr. Scratch, a quizzical Yankee trader with a duck hunter's cap, bristly sideburns and stubble beard, he is a puckish tempter. Whether he is getting Daniel plastered, playing the bass drum in the village band, or spryly nibbling a carrot, he seems to be hugely enjoying his part. He is the kind of Devil most people would like to know...