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Word: pert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adding extra spin to the dancing is pert Vera-Ellen, the cutest musicomedy trick of the season. Surviving from the original score, and still giving satisfaction, are My Heart Stood Still, Thou Swell, On a Desert Island, I Feel At Home With You. Show-stopping new song, thanks to Lorenz Hart's funny lyrics and Vivienne Segal's brilliant delivery, is To Keep My Love Alive, a saga of a lady who industriously murdered her mates seriatim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Half-New Musical in Manhattan | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Nobody has ever played the game of U.S. concert management with a shrewder gambler's eye than pudgy, Russian-born Sol Hurok of Manhattan. Last week Hurok gambled $120,000 on one of the longest and prettiest shots of his career. She was a pert, dark-haired, 18-year-old coloratura soprano named Patrice Munsel. For his $120,000, Hurok got the rights to Patrice's concert and radio appearances for three years. On an operatic filly who has not yet run her maiden race, that was tall betting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: $120,000 Voice | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Agnes de Mille, pert, energetic niece of Hollywood Producer Cecil B. De Mille, who has brilliantly mixed classical ballet patterns with the horsy folk-dancing of the Wild West. Her most fetching job is perhaps the dancing in the Broadway musical smash, Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Whom the Tutus Toss | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...Command. Eaker's arrival in England coincided with Harris' appointment as chief of the big British bombers. Eaker is a frequent guest at the Harris home, is a favorite of Harris' small daughter Jackie. He gives her chocolate from his Post Exchange ration. She gives him pert talk, hints delicately that he is getting bald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Victory is in the Air | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

They published this side by side with the official police photo-a puffy, bloody, battered face (see cuts). The Civil Liberties Committee rounded up Brinkley and two others arrested with Melendes-a pert little whore named Wanita Johnson and a soldier named Private Edward Buckshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Whitewash in St. Louis | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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