Word: pert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair moor for a week or two at relatively trifling cost. Having rented a moor, one must then bring or buy much hunting gear, and, in any case, should wear the hunting costume of the moment. This ensemble, which varies slightly each season, is often topped off with a pert and random feather stuck in the hat. Thus equipped, one asks; "Shall it be dogs or beaters...
...usual, Mrs. Baldwin hovered in her husband's background. She seems the "perfect wife" of Mid-Victorian days, submerging her personality in that of "my dearest husband," and busying herself in odd moments with causes unquestionably worthy. Her triumph was last week, that no smart anecdote or pert story was "hung" upon her name by the American press...
...mention telephone service a la Scandanavia without pert remarks about ours [TIME, July 4] ? "Thank You" makes possible faster service Calls are no less accurately completed, as one hears the operator give the number to the called exchange. Opportunity for correction is there given. "Thank You" saves telephone users in the aggregate, thousands of hours annually. We Americans value highly our "Time". In your remarks about hand telephones, do you infer backwardness in telephone development here? You forget that your Cleveland operator can get you London in a jiffy. You can not talk that far from a Swedish telephone...
...behind us and it is a united effort All the players are fit and well and quite ready to begin playing fast games as soon as the ponies are in condition." The men-Maj. Eric G. Atkinson (captain of the team), Maj. Austin H. Williams, Capt. Claude E. Pert, Capt. Richard George, Lieut. Humphrey P. Guinness- kept in condition by heaving medicine balls around the decks of the Minnetonka. Which of these five will be selected for the team of four is not yet decided. Their form on the fast U. S. fields will determine the matter. One other, however...
...Sales only after he has married another girl. When Mrs. Sales becomes an invalid after a hunting accident, Rose does not let the fact that she was per-haps a little to blame for the mishap interfere with a pure but clandestine love affair with Francis. Henrietta, Rose's pert niece, also likes Francis, but finds after experimenting with him that she likes Charles Batty better. So, when Sales' wife dies, Rose marries him and Henrietta goes Batty...