Word: pert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dixie Dugan is played by pert, agile Ruby Keeler ("Mrs. Al") Jolson, whose reedy little voice blends naturally with familiar Broadway trebles. On the stage she is almost lost in the magnificence of scenes conceived by Joseph Urban, court painter to Producer Ziegfeld...
...this season, Washington society was convulsed by the celebrated Peggy O'Neill Eaton case. While the details of the Eaton and Gann cases are not similar, analogies between them have been drawn. Peggy O'Neill was the daughter of a Washington innkeeper. She was pretty and pert-and sharp-tongued as any barmaid. Andrew Jackson put up at the O'Neill tavern with his Tennessee friend, John H. Eaton. In January, 1829, Eaton married Peggy. On March 4, Jackson became President and appointed Eaton his Secretary of War. Washington society turned fiercely upon Mrs. Eaton, refused...
Chatting amiably and informally last week, Prime Minister Raymond Poincare answered a correspondent's pert question: "Mon cher Président* why don't you declare yourself a Dictator? Moi, j'aime les Mussolinis, les Primo de Riveras, les Pil-sudskis...
...hasn't any engine!" While astonished motorcycle bobbies paced her, the hard-faced middle-aged woman peddled potently on a bicycle mechanism and speeded her tiny car up to 25 miles per hour. An official of the firm now marketing "The Taxlessmobile" hinted that several young, pert, pretty female demonstrators had failed to evoke police reprimands for driving without a license. So a hard-faced, middle-aged woman went out to seek trouble, find publicity. The "Taxlessmobile" has three bicycle wheels, mud guards, lamps, windshield, rear view mirror, steering wheel, collapsible...
...eyes and ears which do not abide Restoration drama in all its grossness this expurgated edition may be accepted with loss protest. A keen admirer of the Restoration gentleman, with all his artifices and crass language, chills and stratagems, will come away feeling that Pope's forever branding, "What pert low dialogue has Farquhar writ!" cannot possibly here apply, For Farquhar's diction, provincial and picaresque, his "unforced buoyant gaiety!" as Mr. William Archer has put it, has been so toned down for the unsullied Bostonian ear that Archer's daring, ".... you may have the same pleasure...