Word: puckish
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...wait has been a trial. Sometimes, in the midnight hours, Eden's phone would ring, and Churchill's voice would say: "I am very tired. I think you must get ready . . ." But in the morning the old man would change his mind again. Sometimes he got a puckish delight out of teasing Eden, and there have been times in recent months when Eden's respect for the "greatest living man," as he calls Sir Winston, has been severely taxed...
...Britain's top satirists, Stephen Potter, 55, in his puckish tomes on Lifemanship and Gamesmanship, has extolled the advantages of "oneupmanship" , (i.e., the use of the ploy, and the art of getting away with it). As one of Britain's top experts on courtship, Marriage Bureaucrat Heather Jenner, 39, in a recent bestseller called Marriage Is My Business, claims to have arranged some 5,000 successful matings. As a result of indoctrinating her clients with some mystical principles of reciprocal oneupmanship, only three of those matches, testifies Heather, have ended in divorce. Last week, however, a gentleman farmer...
...speech. Subject: something should be done about U.S. citizens who are starving and/or earn less than $1,000 a year. His sole congressional listeners: California's Republican J. Arthur Younger and New Jersey's elephantine (320 Ibs.) Democrat T. James Tumulty. When Congressman Roosevelt finished his oration, puckish Jim Tumulty applauded thunderously, asked that the record show the speech was received by "a large and appreciative audience...
...show of Wiinblad's work last week transformed the third floor of Georg Jensen Inc., the Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian good taste, into a strange place, half fairyland and half Punch cartoon. Puckish faces were everywhere, and they bore a remarkable resemblance to the artist-bright-eyed, point-nosed, with an expression of gaiety rampant. The show included chummy centaurs bearing candles, chubby wood nymphs lurking in the shrubbery, birds that never were, sinuous but homey maidens, and friendly eggheads sprouting flowers. One Stolen Nymph, her navel flower-decked, sat sidesaddle aboard a centaur, who was chiefly interested...
Photographs of an oil portrait of Mamie Eisenhower, all prettied up in pink and wearing a wistfully puckish smile, were released at the White House. The work, which hangs in the President's living quarters, was painted last year by Manhattan Artist Thomas E. Stephens (no kin but an old Greenwich Village friend of White House Appointments Secretary Thomas E. Stephens). Artist Stephens has coached Amateur Painter Dwight Eisenhower, also painted him, his mother, father and several of Ike's friends...