Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pert Miss Cushner has been the object of more than one glance herself, as she burrows through the musty stacks, preparing three papers for Vassar courses to make up for the time lost when she was laid up in the infirmary for seven weeks...
...Even the pert brunette seated at the Hygiene Department's receiving desk can't make an impression on a special group of students who visit the ivy-covered building at 15 Holyoke almost daily seeking relief from a peculiar seasonal malady...
...quiet, pleasant weekend, a welcome change from the Washington hurlyburly. He found his mother pert and chipper, saw his old Battery D mates, went early to bed after dinner in his Hotel Muehlebach suite. His only official duty was a three-minute radio address in honor of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Classes in Living. A pert redhead named Marian McGregor, shocked at the general loneliness she encountered, started the Spartan Wives last spring. She and some friends of hers invited other campus wives to get together for picnics and "homemaking" sessions. By fall the idea had spread so far that the wives had to hold a mass meeting in a college ballroom to elect officers. The college detailed a woman professor and the director of adult education extension to help...
...Women's doubles: Miss Hart and Barbara Scofield, a pert little University of Miami (Fla.) girl with freckles and pigtails, who pouts when she misses, pirouettes when she scores, and almost clouts the cover off the ball...