Word: puckish
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Deft Sir Patrick Hastings soon had the Court's lips twitching. He read aloud the more puckish portions of the advertisement describing the efforts of a Blennerhassett to make a yo-yo perform for his children. He began with "deprecatory condescension. . . . The yo-yo was recalcitrant. . . . First it would and then it wouldn't. But the Blennerhassett blood was up. He was determined to make the little devil on a string do its stuff...
...Puckish little Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner is famed for his keen Socialist intellect. So is his wife who winces at being called Lady Passfield, insists she is Beatrice Webb. Lately these two leading Socialists, Laborites and economists set out on a junket to Moscow. If they thought they would receive a luxurious welcome such as was lavished last year on George Bernard Shaw (TIME, Aug. 10), they were right. The Soviet Government threw open its expensive "Guest House" for the Lord & Lady. With the discrimination of an epicure Lord Passfield ate and ate of caviar...
East Wind's velocity is exceedingly low except for the sporadic appearance of a funnyman named Joe Penner. Mr. Penner bounces around, ogles like a monstrous, puckish infant. He sells a bleached elephant to some unsuspecting Indo-Chinese, is thereafter terrorized by the victims of his chicane...
...Third Little Show. Had this revue not opened the same week as The Band Wagon it would have seemed a fairly remarkable production. For the most part it is above-average entertainment, featuring puckish Beatrice Lillie and small Ernest Truex (Lysistrata, Napi...
...words rollick. The little Scot prances and taps them out with his cane as he sings. Two plump, white knees twinkle below his kilt, and the Puckish smile of Sir Harry Lauder becomes as irresistible as the merry light in his grey eyes. Soon one more audience has succumbed to Scottish magic and is lilting the chorus joyously...