Word: pert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Denver, Mrs. Alto Birchmore, 85, on her deathbed, requested that Pert, fox terrier, be chloroformed, buried in the same casket...
...takeoff from Mines Field, Los Angeles, among the celebrities present were Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose $200,000 for exclusive reporting rights made the world flight possible at this time, and pert Cinemactress Marion Davies, Hearst friend. A radio announcer saw them together and to the listening world exclaimed: "Here's Hearst, big publisher-backer of this epochal flight. And who's with him? None other than dainty Miss Davies. Won't you speak a few words, Miss Davies?" Miss Davies, somewhat tremulously, complied. The announcer then called on Mr. Hearst. He refused...
...Chen Po, young, pert, Sorbonne-educated, happily-married, explained what "dew wife" means to a Chinawoman, as follows: "Dew only exists in the early morning. . . . Dew, therefore, in Chinese sense, means changeableness, unreliableness and temporariness." Poetic though it sounds, calling a lady a "dew wife" is thus tantamount to hinting that her husband is a cuckold...
Today not a single king or emperor is acclaimed "The Great." How many want to be? Are any trying for the title? Last week as Spain's lively, cavaliering Alfonso XIII sunbasked at smart Biarritz, he tossed a sort of answer to pert Coralie van Paassen, of the New York Evening World. "If it could be done," smiled His Majesty, "I would like to follow the example of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great...
...ranch he quickly told his daughter the rest of Mr. Ziegfeld's story?Ruby Keeler, pert star of Show Girl, third wife of Al ("Mammy") Jolson, had been mysteriously stricken during a performance. With a twinge of sympathy for Ruby, a burst of joy for her own good fortune, Dorothy Stone ran to pack...