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Word: puckish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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