Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not conceal some adulteries among the women she writes about. There is hardly a police captain who hasn't talked to, admonished, and reluctantly sent to jail some of the confused little girls caught in raids on cheap hotels. For the chances are there. Said the pert little sprite in San Antonio: "Manless? Are you kidding? As for the girls in my crowd, it's a major one night, a captain another, and cadets and sergeants and corporals and, O Lord, whoever asked that question wasn't thinking about San Antonio...
...meaning, still talked of a need for 300,000 new war workers. But while they busily tried to shoo more men into factories, the Army upped its January and February draft quotas one-third. In New York, where war plants were short 73,000 workers, WMC's pert, tough Anna Rosenberg sent draft boards the names of 1,200 men who had been deferred as shipyard workers and had since left their war jobs...
...Selznick, she combines and uses the talents of ace trouble shooter, saleswoman, fixer, promoter, talent scout, fashion ex pert, beauty expert and housemother. Ingrid Bergman would prefer not to be photographed unless Colby is on hand. Jennifer Jones thinks twice about blowing her nose without reporting to Colby. Inde pendent of Publicity Chief Don King, she works closely with Selznick, handling all deals public and personal which call for grade-A finesse. Her social and journalistic contacts in both New York and Hollywood are peerless; she calls Winchell Walter and Lyons Lennie. To all the people on earth who most...
...found out, but too late. He and his jungle patrol were wiped out. But last week other Japs who had survived the fight in northern Burma knew more about the Naga raiders and their leader. The half-naked tribesmen from northeastern India were directed by a white woman: pert, pretty Ursula Graham-Bower, 30, an archeology student who looks like a cinemactress...
...October day a year ago, pert WAVE Ensign Marie Thompson stood on an East Coast airfield and with a kiss for all hands sent 36 Navy flyers off to the Pacific. They were the pilots of Fighting Squadron Two. Last week WAVE Thompson had the news that all but four of the boys she had kissed goodbye were on their way home, that the squadron had made one of the great combat records...