Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pert, plump "Merry" Geissmann, 36, daughter of a Columbus (Ohio) manual arts teacher, has several other success notes in her style book. She has designed furniture and simple dress and accessory patterns. Her biggest success was the Merry Hull "Finger-Free Glove," with three-dimensional fingers to eliminate cramping. In ten years she has collected $200,000 in royalties...
...band manager Walter J. Skinner '48, pert little Priscilla Cook might have led the "best in the business" into the stadium this week. As it was, she brushed the teardrops from her eyes last night and asked herself why nobody wanted her. B.U. had started all her troubles when bandsman Warren Freeman decided his cohorts could do without her and offered her to the Jawn Harvards...
...recognized by the French because he had once been acceptable to the Vichy regime. He was lean, dark, and a few inches shorter than Dee-Dee. He had been married twice before-to Dominican Dictator Trujillo's daughter Flor de Oro, and to Danielle Darrieux, the pert and sexy French film star (Mayerling), who had once been marked for death by the French underground. Around Paris nightclubs, everybody knew eager, ardent Rubi...
...comments of Cup Donor Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. When one of them loitered over a courtside conversation, Mrs. Wightman snapped: "Stalling! Stalling!" Sighed blonde Jean Bostock, as she watched Margaret Osborne: "I'll be lucky to even get a point!" The British girls had been experimenting with U.S. menus. Pert Betty Hilton was feeling poorly. "It's because of the cream puffs," confided Teammate Kay Stammers Menzies...
...task of their year: rushing the news, sketches and pictures from the Paris and New York openings into print for their big fall numbers. Queenly Edna Woolman Chase, 70-year-old editor-in-chief of Vogue, bustled home from a quick inspection of her revived British and French editions. Pert Carmel Snow, 56, editor of Harper's Bazaar, was doing front-line duty in Paris. Both were ecstatic about derrieres, guepieres (little waist corsets), and a French designer of "magnificent courage" named Christian Dior (the man who, abetted by some Americans, first dared to lower skirts after the death...