Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Past a dead elevator (no electricity) they clattered on two-inch wooden soles up four flights of blue-carpeted stairs, sat down and glorified the gilt chairs in the long showroom. A sprinkling of WACs, a handful of beady-eyed U.S. officers lined the wall. Appraising eyes watched pretty, pert mannequins strut, simper, pirouette...
...yarn is brightly punctuated, too, by Agnes de Mille's varied choreography-a sharp, expressive Civil War ballet, a waltz-drenched first-act finale, and some lively specialties in which Oklahoma!-born Joan McCracken is indeed pretty special. To her clean dancing style, she adds pert looks, funny gestures, a comic gift for bellowing a song...
...music and literature were strung over the battleground. Sculptor Jo Davidson, engineering a Term IV musical show in Madison Square Garden, had to choose from a wealth of volunteers: Lily Pons, Duke Ellington, Yehudi Menuhin, Marian Anderson. Dinah Shore, Grace Moore, Gene Krupa. Anti-New Deal writers Ru pert Hughes, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kenneth Roberts, Louis Bromfield, Channing Pollock and Booth Tarkington plotted a Republican victory, and Dorothy Parker, in a big new pirate's hat, furiously attended Term IV luncheons...
...Margaret O'Brien, pert, hazel-eyed, seven-year-old cinemoppet (Lost Angel, Journey for Margaret), vacationed in Mexico City, wanted to see the bullfights (her mother said she was too young), instead spent her time visiting churches, said that when she grew up she would enter a convent...
...wants to drive this charming wife crazy by making her think his searching footsteps in the attic are only figments of her imagination, is hard to understand. Maybe he wants to get Miss Bergman out of the way so he can marry Leslie Brooks, the pert chambermaid...