Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: TIME (July 21) asserts that Senator Wheeler has said: "There will be revolution in this this country if damnable the war. . . ." Administration gets us into To which TIME'S curt, pert editor adds: "Not in Atlanta, Ga., where Senator Wheeler was refused the use of the city auditorium." Let TIME think again. This is revolution. Whatever one thinks of Burt Wheeler's views, it is Nazi revolution when our Constitution is ignored and a U.S. Senator-or any other American, for that matter-is denied his right to express his opinion on public policy in a public...
Franklin Roosevelt's personal representative was covering a lot of ground. Exactly three days after he made a radio speech in London, promising immediate aid to Russia, the skinny fellow who is called by London's pert cockneys "that there Mister Hurry Upkins" turned up at the Kremlin in person. He flew to Moscow to find out just what Joe Stalin wanted, and how to get it to him in a hurry...
...before Myrt, let her reduce the crowd to 35. Then it took over a couple of CBS studios, crowded advertising executives and the program director in one, put Myrt in the other. Forthwith auditions commenced. It took three days to pick the new Marge. Unanimous choice for Marge was pert, black-haired Cinemactress Helen Mack, who had the role of a streetwalker in His Girl Friday...
...genius like Huey Long; he was merely an exhibitionist playing with fire." When Percy Sr. won, they tried to pin a bribery charge on him. It was quickly disproved, but the man who made the charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless. . . . The people loved him ... not because they were deceived in him, but because they understood him thoroughly; they said of him proudly: 'He's a slick little bastard.' " Next time they threw out Percy Sr. "Wai," said an old man, wet with...
...Pert, imaginative, Wisconsin-born Harry Gordon Selfridge is, as he likes to say, the only man ever to buy a business from five Jews and sell it to seven Scotchmen at a profit. The business was Chicago's Schlesinger & Mayer department store, sold to Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Harry Selfridge also made $1,000,000 from Marshall Field & Co., went to England with his profits. In 1909 he amazed Londoners with his magnificent effrontery by setting up a department store on Oxford Street, running it in the breeziest American tradition...