Word: pert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pert, red-haired Ginger Rogers (Virginia McMath ), 23, has been dancing nimbly and singing huskily since she won a Charleston contest in Texas at 16. In vaudeville she called herself "The Original John Held Jr. Girl" although she had never met or posed for that artist. Playing on Broadway in Top Speed and Girl Crazy, she got a cinema contract because Hollywood liked the way she kept repeating "Cigaret me, big boy!" in Young Man of Manhattan. She plays expert ping-pong, likes to speak pig-Latin, dislikes exhibiting her feet. We're Not Dressing (Paramount). This picture...
Airmail Sirs: I have been a TIME enthusiast and subscriber since my undergraduate days. At times some of your pert comments have nettled me but in your March 5 issue I find a type of journalism that I consider distinctly unTIME-worthy. I refer to the article, "Army's First Week" under your Aeronautics section...
...field! Although it was not emphasized in any yellow-press, sensational style, the news contained in this (Monday) morning's CRIMSON is indeed startling. I refer, of course, to the notice concerning "brother Kelton" in the Playgoer's column on page four. Considering how feminine a young lady Pert Kelton was only a picture or two ago, I find it quite remarkable that "he" can now fit a gangster part perfectly, crack a crib with "his" underlings...
...hour later, tongue in cheek, he was fibbing to a comely girl with a pert purple hat. "I'm a delegate from Andorra," he said. She looked at him blankly. "It's in the Pyrenees," he explained...
...Author is tiny but Irish, with strong nerves and a sense of humor. She repeats the description a Communist girl organizer gave of her: "You have a baby face and pert manners. . . . You think you're an artist. . . . You're the kind of person I want to see killed!" Born 24 years ago in the slums of Washington, D. C., where her parents were social workers, Authoress Gilfillan has always had a "penchant for 'bums.' " By the time she was 14 she had run away from home twice to see the world. At 17, her parents...