Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bell can't figure out where he learned about the criminal mind. He never met a fingerman in his life, never reads mystery stories, spends his few off hours quietly at home with his wife, radio-&-cinemactress Pert Kelton, and their two children. "I figure I just have a talent for murder," he says. "Whenever I gotta mess a guy. up on the air, I just think of some s.o.b. that insulted me the other day, and then I grind my teeth and do what the script says just as if I was doing...
Jessica Allan loves her job. She is the pert, bright-eyed, fortyish executive director of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities. Last week, when more than 300 mayors and aldermen from Halifax to Victoria swarmed into Winnipeg's Royal Alexandria Hotel for the federation's tenth annual conference, everything was all set. Jessica had seen...
...pert, pint-sized, hot-butter blonde, shuffling chips across the green felt, looked as radiant as a girl who has just graduated first in her class. To her bosses at Reno's Nevada Club, her air of achievement was not surprising...
...reporters had also never seen in action a Russian quite so engaging as Jacob M. Lomakin, ex-Tassman, now consul general in New York City. A near-facsimile of cinemanful James Cagney, ebullient Consul Lomakin had no battery of deadpan advisers; behind him at each session sat a pert and pretty Russian blonde. Unlike icily aloof Andrei Gromyko, Lomakin chatted easily with those near him. He called the other delegates "fellow experts," and he uttered such un-Soviet statements as "We don't need to be consulting Moscow all the time," and "I will go along with what...
Married. Arline Judge, 35, pert-faced cinemactress; and Henry J. (Bob) Topping, 33, tin-plate heir; she for the fifth time (her second: Dan Topping, brother of the current groom), he for the third; in Miami Beach...