Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mason - Stokes ($2). Supersuave treatment of spying in today's Balkans. Major Hugh North, U. S. Intelligence, gets stuck in a Rumanian villa where murder is liberally done for a formula. North finally finds it embroidered on the undies of Contesse di Bruno, who all the time was pert little Connie Fletcher from Kansas...
...Together they have wandered up & down the land paying citizens $1 to answer such queries as: How many feathers on the average hen?* What was our President's name 30 years ago?† Should a gentleman remove his hat before striking a lady?**Along with this pert questionnaire, Vox Pop offers its listeners interviews with cinema stars, politicos, "typical Americans," statistics on the number of one-armed paper hangers, wooden Indians and wooden covered bridges in the U. S. Although its formula is a bit musty, its competition fierce, Vox Pop has a Crossley rating of 10.8, sometimes attracts...
Born. To Janet Gaynor, pert, auburn-haired cinemactress, and Gilbert Adrian, swank fashion designer: their first child, a son. Weight: 7 Ib. 4 oz. Name: Robbin Gaynor...
...Malcolm produced a pert blonde housemaid named Joy Higginson to swear she once abruptly entered the ballroom of his house to see Lady Campbell and a Mr. Bruce Keith "embracing as lovers" on a sofa...
This version of the old Cinderella story does not rate prolonged cheers. But spun out by the deft Wilcox touch, it is pleasant entertainment, as airy and filmy as the gowns in which pert Upholsterer's Apprentice Neagle dances her way into the heart of Madame Lucy (Ray Milland), the masculine modiste who employs and marries her. There are well-tailored performances by Roland Young, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher. Cinemactress Neagle sings charmingly, dances delightfully, is saucy, dainty, indubitably youthful...