Word: pert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this question Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, organizer of the Henry Ford "peace ship" in 1917, wrote: "Not personally. I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States." In view of Mme. Schwimmer's prominence among pacifists, this answer may well have been considered pert by naturalization authorities. At any rate, her application was last week refused (by a Chicago naturalization board) citizenship on grounds that she was "lacking in nationalistic feeling" and also because she had announced herself as an atheist. Her attorney, William B. Gemmill, said he would appeal to the U. S. District...
Here are all the pert buffoonery, sly satire, light irreverence of the Follies of yesteryear. Here, too, are the gay settings of Aline Bernstein, the devastating mimicry of Albert Carroll. "Cautious Cal" sits on a Vermont front porch industriously knitting and singing the praises of isolation. Indignant sex-actors revile District Attorney Banton and padlock censorship in gay lampoon. But over the whole proceedings hangs a dim pall of melancholy. For after the production runs its two weeks' course, the company will disband, the aspiring but indigent Neighborhood Playhouse closes its doors for the last time. Flatly dull...
This will be invaluable for conversational purposes, since you saw it in Boston. Don't fall to mention the best actress-comedienne of them all, Pert Kelton, whose imitations are inimitable. And swear by Marlyn...
...balls at once and braid 'em." He wooed the manager's sweetheart Mary, (Sally O'Neil). He kissed her when she resented, in her athletic way, being kissed. He ran for home plate standing up on a close play-the sin of sins. He was pert, fresh, insolent, outrageous. But he was a born baseball player and the manager, Cliff Macklin, (Warner Richmond) knew it. After an entertaining series of adventures in which the audience sees expertly photographed pictures of Mike Donlin, Irish Meusel, Bob Meusel, Tony Lazzeri in real baseball action and almost smells the fresh...
Bold advertising of this pert name made their Eskimo Pie popular immediately. The U. S. licked at cold chocolate bars and ice cream makers throughout the U. S. sought license to manufacture Eskimo Pie. For every dozen of these pies they made-and at the height of Eskimo Pie popularity 2,000,000 were sold daily-they paid Russell Stover and Christian K. Nelson a nickel. These men grew rich-income $1,000,000 yearly. Then the U. S. Foil Co. which manufactures wrappings for can- dies and small articles, bought control of their company and they became contented security...