Word: puckish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basement was done over into a game room and a rathskeller. On the walls a wistful, cherubic Conant portrays "the forgotten man" and a puckish Conant on skis streams behind him a "California here I come" banner; also, the original James Montgomery Flagg poster welcomes alumni to the World's Fair annual meeting. There are three frequently-used pool tables, and a former dean of the Law School takes on all comers at rheumatic ping pong. The rathskeller held some very popular "punchteas" after the football games and offers vic dancing every evening except Sunday. This glorified Eliot House Grille...
...legend, the Heavenly Express makes a pleasant theatre fantasy, but Playwright Bein leans on it too heavily as a plot device. He has also treated his fantasy far too coyly. The Overland Kid (John Garfield) dances all over the stage, cavorts on chairs and tables, makes pixie faces and Puckish gestures, behaves like someone who is more at home on a tricycle than in freight cars...
Floyd Bostwick Odlum with his puckish grin came out of the Rockies in 1916, at 23, an idea man for "Old Profanity"-the late Utilitarian Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell -who was then expanding the already huge, sprawling Electric Bond & Share empire. In 1923, young Odlum got to work for himself in a small way. He started Atlas Corp. as a $40,000 investment pool. His associates were his friend George Howard (since 1929 president of United Corp. and still one of Atlas' largest stockholders) and his wife (No.1), able Hortense Odlum (now president of Manhattan's thriving Bonwit Teller...