Word: puckishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of sabotaging its leading character and committing mayhem on the 1948 Broadway success, The Silver Whistle. This time, the acid, all-knowing Webb is uncomfortably fitted out with a heart of gold, while Robert McEnroe's comedy, on which the movie is based, loses most of its puckish spirit...
Among the last of King Abdullah's official visitors last week was a stocky, cigar-smoking man with a tarboosh tilted jauntily over a blunt, puckish face. He was Riad Bey el Solh, 57, one of the Middle East's shrewdest politicians and Lebanon's first premier when the little country became independent...
Beaton did. Soon he had his first show (full of such surrealisms as the famous photograph of Edith Sitwell-as a corpse on a strip of linoleum), and became notorious overnight as the wild man of British photography. In a few years puckish Cecil had captivated a good share of the rich society-photography trade in New York as well as in London, and had published a book of his photographs. One of Cecil's subjects, Lady Cunard, was so displeased with the book that she set her copy afire in the midst of a luncheon party, then seized...
...Somerset Maugham's beachcomber, Laughton is puckish without losing his heartiness. He delights in his own dirty-pants-and-sneakers shagginess. For sonority, he has speeches about snow in England and about understanding natives. To show contentedness he smiles abstractedly at his empty beer glass. Eventually he is domesticated by a painfully sincere missionary (Elsa Lancaster), but by then the fun is over. An incredibly clever dog unlisted in the credits gives a superb performance...
...introductory "Approach to the Patient," puckish Dr. Harrison's authors caution students (and general practitioners who may use the book for reference) that the patient comes first, with his aches & pains. Fancy modern laboratory tests and techniques are all very well, say the authors-but in their place. Laboratory data, they say, "are frequently surrounded by an aura of authority, without heed to the fact that the data are collected by fallible human beings who are capable of committing errors of technique, or who may misinterpret the most precise evidence . . . Even these data cannot release the physician from...