Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which (for no better reason than the foregoing) brings us to a resolution prohibiting wives in Cowie Hall which we hereby introduce knowing very well that you won't approve of it. Chief reason is that while the ladies are very pert indeed they are bad for the digestion of midshipmen in general and Middies Grodman and Abasambra in particular who can be seen oggle-eyed at the table any night of the week you care to look at them instead of peering intentedly at the women yourself. (Note to Middies Burke, Johnson and Burke--we're only appreciating what...
Roundabout is Straightaway. Those who attend Presidential press conferences know May Craig as the small, pert woman who always gets to the front row, always asks deft, roundabout questions in a far-from-timid voice. When President Roosevelt's reticence in disclosing his Third Term plans had the U.S. in a dither, May noticed that some of his naval prints had been removed from the conference-room walls. Instead of asking the direct Third...
Brought together in Mexico City's radio station XEW by the first south-of-the-border broadcast of a big-time U.S.. program were Rumania's ex-King Carol, Mistress Magda Lupescu, U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith and wife Marion, pert Puppet Charlie McCarthy and Dandier Edgar Bergen. "Hi, horseface!" yipped Charlie, staring down from the stage at a U.S. Embassy attaché's small son. The audience guffawed, thinking he was addressing McCarthy-fan Carol, who has acquired that nickname in certain Mexico City circles...
Brian Aherne plays the part of a wisecracking murder-story writer whose pert wife, lovely Loretta Young, leads to a Greenwich Village apartment at No. 13 Gay Street. There, she hopes, he will write romantic novels. The discovery that something sinister is going an in the building, at times in their own apartment, thwarts the gay couple's literary plans, and sends them merrily-a-sleuthing. Aherne and Young, and an able supporting cast, turn in good performances, but the plot is none too exciting, and the dialogue strains for laughs. It is only average entertainment...
...relatives. The play's charm lies in its half-nostalgic, half-satiric display of the kid-gloved conventions of the time. Its comedy lies in its sharp family portraits-Rhoda's rude, snobbish dowager aunt (well played by Margaret Douglass), her healthily lovesick young cousin Daphne, a pert, gold-digging actress who is engaged to Cousin Jimmy (Myron McCormick). The play's romance lies in Rhoda's unspoken love for Jimmy, the intensity of which she understands only after another young man's attentions have released her pent-up feelings...