Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-man Cabinet committee to plan the strategy for "the Battle of the Bread." Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams launched a new "Dig for Victory" campaign. Lord Aberconway, president of the Royal Horticultural Society, announced that his members would continue to resist the temptation to reconvert to flowers. Pert Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson appealed to Britons to carry on in "the Dunkirk spirit...
...teen-age market, they should know what the kids want." For his key workers he appointed the "Joe Guns" (most popular students) of Chicago high schools as "research supervisors," gave them 75? an hour to poll students. He now has a staff of 350 adolescent aides and a pert, blonde fashion director, 18-year-old Shirley Rappelt...
Married. Virginia Cowles, 33, pert Manhattan socialite, whose chatty bestseller, Looking for Trouble, recounted her five years (1936-1941) as a roving European correspondent with the charm and looks to meet the right people, lately special assistant to U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant; and R.A.F. Flight Lieut. Aidan Crawley, 37, athletic Oxfordian who was elected to Britain's new Labor Parliament, son of the Rev. Canon A. S. Crawley, chaplain to King George VI; both for the first time; in London...
...find a Miss Canada for its September cover, the Canadian Home Journal, Toronto's folksy magazine, had a group of high-school boys look over 175 photographs of teen-age school beauties. They came up with a dozen selections, among them pert, poised Lenore, top-ranked because they thought that she combined the best facial features of Cinemactresses Lauren ("The Look") Bacall and Ingrid Bergman...
Massine booked half of the road performances in open-air stadiums where the potential box office exceeds $10,000. (Just to be on the safe side, he also took in as business partner Y. D. Scales, a Fort Worth auto dealer, whose daughter, pert Kathryn Lee, a musicomedy dancer, wanted to be a highbrow ballerina.) Said Massine, flushed with the opening success of Highlights: "My conception of repertoire is the same as that of chamber music in relation to symphony. ... I feel I am restoring some of the basic elements of Russian ballet. . . . Today ballet has become, with big companies...