Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tumbling only at the last two gates on the Dollar Mountain slalom course, pert, pear-faced Cinemactress Claudette Colbert skied off with first-place honors in Class A in Sun Valley's first guest slalom race of the season. Her time for the 1-mile track...
...magazine* refers to you as a 'silent and undemanding companion.' Don't ever change. Your master must have few enough who fall into that category." Except for two-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt III, generally known as Joe, only youngster at the White House Christmas was pert, black-eyed Diana Hopkins, 8, daughter of Presidential Friend Harry L. Hopkins. Besides helping Mrs. Roosevelt by arranging the White House creche, Diana rollicked off to the executive offices, had her picture snapped with her dad and the Hopkins family's 1940 Christmas slogan...
...every zis and zat with loving care, particularly admire. Of England's late King George V she said: "Ze Keeng-he ees tres gentil-zo zhentle, zo keeng." Of a shoe which was too small for even her No. 2 foot: ;'Eet ees no. I cannot enter." Pert and naive-looking with her big brown eyes, her childish face framed by a reddish pageboy bob, Lily Pons is to all appearances docile, even-tempered: she has all the French virtues, is genuinely kindly and cute comme un bou-ton-mais, zut alors, elle est shrewd, smart...
Recent threats and inducements of Hit ler's velvet-voiced diplomat. Ambassador Franz von Papen, had failed to impress Turkey's astute little President. Ismet Inonii. Asked how he had managed to withstand the foremost Nazi pressure ex pert, the President declared: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." Not deaf was Tur key's leader to less polished but meatier promises of British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. Last week his country firmly snubbed the Axis by signing a comprehensive economic agreement with Britain. By her sharp barter tactics Germany had corralled 54% of Turkey...
...Pert, youthful Sylvia Weld, playing her first Broadway lead, gives a tense, natural portrayal of inner torment. Ralph (brother of Frank) Morgan seems rather too professional to be convincing as the father, but Tom Powers plays an intelligent priest to the life. John Hoysradt appears as an outrageously affected writer whose rasping impudence stabs the girl like a sword...