Word: pert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nurse. Betty Gow took the stand after Col. Lindbergh. As a prosecution witness the 30-year-old Scotswoman added little but tears to Attorney General Wilentz's case. With Counsel Reilly, however, she was pert, not teary. Quizzed about "Red" Johnson, onetime sailor on Thomas Lament's yacht with whom Nurse Gow had been friendly the summer before the kidnapping, she admitted that she had gone to a New Jersey roadhouse with him. The most valuable bit of testimony for the defense ferreted out of Nurse Gow by Counsel Reilly was that on the day of the kidnapping...
...Maybe," suggested a pert newshawk, "you had better write Washington about it." The President got a big laugh, but serious Otis Moore was at pains to point out to reporters that, for fear of embarrassing the President, he had sought no government agricultural benefits. Said he: "I will not even let the Negroes who live on the land apply for relief...
...very day of this Papal blast a self-appointed commission to investigate Spain's atrocities reached Madrid. Led by the 5th Earl of Listowel, the investigators consisted of M. Charles Bourthomieux of the French Court of Appeals. Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, a pert proletarian and onetime British Labor M. P., and Lord Listowel's secretary, a Czech named Katz...
...cocktail parties, dinners and night clubs." During this period of traipsing around Europe her granddaughter was practically turned over to Mrs. Morgan. Only education Gloria got from her mother, swore the child's garrulous Irish nurse, was in how to mix a cocktail. She might also, suggested a pert French maid, have picked up some of Mrs. Vanderbilt's "very dirty" picture books. The nurse said she and Mrs. Morgan had peeked on Prince Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg lying on a bed with Mrs. Vanderbilt. The maid said she had seen Mrs. Vanderbilt and the Marchioness of Milford...
...chose Miss Rogers. When President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 sent Whitelaw Reid to the Court of St. James's, Secretary Rogers went along. There she met the Reid's fun-loving Son Ogden, just out of Yale. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, who had a deep affection for her pert, level headed secretary, smiled on the match. Helen and Ogden were married in 1911. Next year Whitelaw Reid died and the Tribune, which he had acquired in 1872 from Horace Greeley, passed to Son Ogden...