Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reputation was probably already past saving. For a fortnight he had stood accused of everything from dabbling in war contracts to arranging for reluctant soldiers to remain in the continental U.S. But until pert Eleanor Hall, a former Garsson secretary, took the stand, there had been no evidence to indicate he had actually received any cash payments for his services. She supplied...
Divorced. Jay Gould III, 27, wartime AAFlyer, namesake and great-grandson of the Erie railroad tycoon; by Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, pert, pretty daughter of Cinemactor Nigel Bruce; after nearly two years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...feet, teeth, etc. and weeded them down to four. The less critical bleachers merely kept up a long low whistle. Finally only Miss Marion Saver, 21, a brunette from Newton Brook, Ont. with a rabbit's foot in her hand, was left. She was proclaimed Miss Canada with pert Miss Muriel Hunter of Hamilton close behind her (see cut). Excitedly she tried to explain that she had entered the contest only on the urging of her family. Said she: "If it weren't for my mother, I wouldn't be here tonight...
Jackson baldly stated that he thought it was Black who had waged a subtle war in Washington to keep him from getting the Chief Justiceship. He intimated that Elack had used pert Washington Star Columnist Doris Fleeson to further his ends. He quoted from a May 16 column in which Miss Fleeson reported the start of the feud. Wrote she: "Justice Black reacted with fiery scorn to what he regarded as an open and gratuitous 'insult, a slur upon his personal and judicial honor. Nor did he bother to conceal his contempt...
...Pert Judy Garland (Mrs. Vincente Minnelli) burlesquing a world-weary but oh-so-cordial movie queen in a dance-and-doggerel brush with the press. ¶ Tenor James Melton and Soprano Marion Bell warbling their way through the wine-cup scene from Verdi's La Traviata...