Word: pert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pert Headlines...
Such has been the fallibility of elevators in the past that last year an old gentleman from Wisconsin visiting Manhattan preferred to walk to the eleventh floor of the Equitable Building rather than entrust his person to the onslaughts of the pert chauffeurs who, with what seemed to him to be smiles of malice, offered to propel him toward his destination...
...behind him Thomas Hitchcock Jr., and Malcolm Stevenson; behind them and nearer the white goal posts where the magic carpet ends Devereux Milburn, grey veteran of every International match since 1909, U. S. captain. Opposite were Major Austin H. Williams, Capt. C. T. I. Roark and Capt. Claude E. Pert, British No. 1, unconventionally drawn back a little to get a swifter rush when the white willow ball, tossed between the teams, began the play. Behind, Major Eric G. Atkinson guarding the far goal posts...
...players, bounced, bounded through the posts over 100 yards away. Webb scored, Hitchcock scored, Milburn (against whose play at back the British at tack had foamed and fallen like a wave) scored twice; Hitchcock scored, Webb scored twice; Roark scored a second goal for Britain. Webb scored; Pert scored the last stategoal for Britain. Total: U.S. 13, Great Britain...
...pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness of their tragedy is incongruously shattered by Marie Carroll, who, as the worm-eaten, twisted sister, insists upon breaking forth into pert, lovable antics of the ingenue type, known to all stock companies. The audience laughed when it should have commiserated...