Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grand ballroom of St. Paul's Hotel St. Paul one night last week, a pert little waitress named Katherine Butterfield sat opposite an auditor named Herbert Meddinnus. Miss Butterfield was the pone. In the second hand, she held 16. She was 20 holes ahead at the first half. In the seventh hand, she held 16 again. On the last round she was 20 holes ahead. She went out needing 10 and holding 12. Mr. Meddinnus barely got around the horn to escape a skunking by two holes...
Mickey had been an MGM contract player ($250 a week top) for a year, and his pert ways and brassy cackle had lent themselves to shows like A h Wilderness, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Devil Is a Sissy. It did not look to anybody as if the part of Andy Hardy in A Family Affair would buy Mom's big car. It was a B picture and got a normal B response. But serials were being done. So MGM made another Hardy picture, and another. The fourth one, Love Finds Andy Hardy, was made...
...foggy and icy in St. Louis, Mo., one morning a month ago. Even crows were walking. Fogbound at St. Louis Airport was small, pert, impish Leo Herbert Rich, industrial consultant. With a pocketful of proxies he had flown from New York City to make a fight at a stockholders' meeting of Barnsdall Refining Corp. The meeting was in Tulsa that afternoon, and unless he got there in time, a deal was going through whereby the individual stockholders were going to be reduced to a mere 13% minority and control of the company was going to return to Barnsdall Refining...
Bill of Divorce. One reason pert Vivien Leigh (rhymes with Robert E.) got the part of Scarlett O'Hara was because at the right time she was in Hollywood seeing darkly scowling Laurence Olivier. He looks like a swarthy Douglas Fairbanks Jr., is as British as young Douglas Fairbanks tries to be. When Olivier was acting with Katharine Cornell in No Time for Comedy, Vivien Leigh used to nag Director Fleming to speed up Gone With the Wind so she could fly to Manhattan and Laurence Olivier. When Vivien Leigh flew to Atlanta, for the premiere of Gone With...