Word: pert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Knox, brown and shingled of hair, blue of eye, pert and minxful as her Cleone, declared to popeyed news gatherers: "I wrote the book in a few weeks, but, if I had realized so many distinguished people would have taken it seriously, I should have spent much more time and pains upon it.... I had wanted to write ever since I was a child, but everything I wrote was always returned. Then one day I got the idea of writing a 'diary...
Jack, having butchered seven Spaniards not possessed of gold earrings, splits the eighth with an ax and wrests from his ears the trophy demanded by a pert minx-in-waiting to the Queen, Kate More, "granddaughter of Sir Thomas More...
Colleen Moore found herself catapulted into fame some years ago on the strength of a pert little face and a spontaneity of manner which exactly typified flapperdom. Now that the flapper has gone, it would seem that Colleen's day is done. We understand that she is married now. She certainly acts like it in "We Moderns...
...passport. She ' never sang better (which is not saying so much) and she never danced better (which is saying everything). She seems to enjoy herself during working hours as does no other actress. Her assisting celebrities are Jack Donahue (funny), Clifton Webb, Mary Hay, Joseph Cawthorn, Dorothy Francis, Pert Kelton (new and welcome), Jerome Kern (who wrote the music), Olsen's Band (who play it), and Ukelele...
...Step. It is not impossible that this play, shorn of about 20 character, focussed to pick out the lights and shadows, and rewritten with a feeling for the jazz dialect, might be a pert and serviceable entertainment. In its present form, it is diffuse, dreary...