Word: pert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under a pert caricature of New York City's explosive Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at the art show of the Columbia University faculty appeared...
Since the death in 1936 of Egypt's corpulent King Fuad, the eyes of Egyptian jellaheen have watched the career of his successor-son, 18-year-old King Farouk I. On returning to Egypt to be crowned, the young King chose a commoner as his intended bride, pert little 16-year-old Sasi Naz Zulfikar, daughter of a palace lady-in-waiting, bestowed on her the name Farida, meaning "The Only One." Bickering resulted in the postponement of the King's marriage until Feb. 11. Bickering last week got Farouk into much deeper hot water...
...Bulletin Index is a pert weekly published in Pittsburgh and mainly concerned with Pittsburgh affairs. Last week its editors printed an indignant story (which they privately regarded as a great scoop) about a scientific "miscarriage of justice" which was incidentally an outrage to Pittsburgh's civic pride...
Arranged for Chicago's Arts Club by pert, attractive Mrs. Robert S. Pirie when she and Mr. Pirie, whose father is president of Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., drove their trailer to Mexico City last year, the show numbered 54 paintings, 36 of them new, by 14 first-string Mexican artists...
...Sliding on the Surface or Digging Deep?'', "What Lands Us in the Rough of the Game of Life," "Thinking Constructively.'' Readers who plowed through these lush homilies generally concluded that Harry Selfridge was about to extend his operations to Manhattan. Last week Harry Selfridge, still pert and lively at 79, declared, "There is nothing further from my mind than to buy a business or associate myself with any business in this country. 'Callisthenes' in Manhattan," said Mr. Selfridge, "is purely an extravagant idiosyncrasy. ... I like to do the impudent thing and I consider...