Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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June Havoc, pert musicomedienne who broke her kneecap last summer during a performance of Mexican Hayride, showed the injured member to interested doctors at New York State Workmen's Compensation Bureau, demanded more compensation for depletion of a capital asset. Paying customers, she explained, "expect to see my knees. I can't turn or kick and all I do is fake a few jitterbug steps...
...sure don't be de dype to seddle down in a hole like dis," said the Norwegian skipper gloomily as he watched pert, young Santa Fe Schoolteacher Helen Wheaton get ready to clamber over the side of his dinky schooner in Atka Harbor. As she said goodbye to the skipper and boarded the bobbing dory in which her bridegroom waited with open arms, Helen was thinking much the same thing...
Added to sumptuous powder rooms would be "safety" clothes having "real style" because, according to Bogner, "women in pert, natty uniforms spruce up a place...
Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Russia's sharp-eyed, correct Commissar for Foreign Affairs, was rated the top "glamor boy" of the San Francisco conference by Britain's pert Delegate Ellen Wilkinson, Labor M.P. Her one qualification: Molotov (unlike Britain's Eden and America's Stettinius) was not really very glamorous "to look...
...area's best horticulturists and floral designers right & left (despite protests of other growers, who claimed that he was underselling the market and charging off floral losses against newspaper profits), soon had a crack staff of 65. Among many Smith service features: a "memory service bureau," employing a pert blonde to call up husbands two days before wedding anniversaries...