Word: puckishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puckish, freckled face, and his hair is as red as the racing silks of the late Charles S. Howard, which he once carried to the money-winning record of the world on a horse named Seabiscuit...
...Playboy. Citroën was founded by puckish, pudgy André Citroën, playboy son of an immigrant Amsterdam jeweler, who turned out his first car in 1919. A big-scale munitionsmaker in World War 1, he converted from shells to cars, soon became the No. 2 automaker (after Renault) in the world's No. 2 automaking nation...
...artist," intoned London's Times last week, "but to omit him is to miss one of the most remarkable figures of the century." The Manchester Guardian agreed: "The most original artist of time a mystic to whom nothing is commonplace." The painter in question was Britain's puckish, eccentric Stanley Spencer, 64, who was being honored last week with a retrospective of 83 oils at London's Tate Gallery. The paintings represented a lifetime devoted to religious themes−all depicted in the comfortable everyday terms of barnyards, country lanes and the River Thames around Painter Spencer...
...Russians invaded in 1939 and headed for the U.S. Since 1945, he has been teaching at Portland's Presbyterian Lewis and Clark College, where as many as 70 students brave his celebrated sternness to play in his student orchestra. One reason: beneath the rigorous vigor lies a puckish streak that relieves the direst stress. For example, Sirpo was once felled on the podium by a minor stroke, and somebody shrieked that he had been shot. As the cops arrived, he regained his speech and muttered solemnly: "My wife did it." On another occasion, the Sirpos had just moved into...
Married. Stephen Potter. 55, bony British humorist famed for his puckish "man-ship" books (Gamesmanship, One-Upmanship, Lifemanship); and Mrs. Heather Jenner. 39, blonde, bestselling (Marriage Is My Business) British authority on courtship; both for the second time (her first ended in divorce after her husband accused her of adultery, naming Potter as corespondent); in London...