Word: pert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pert Nicky Raphaelson, Radcliffe '50, showed her espirit de corps as she declared, "Anything for Shaw. Mendy will do a superb job, but he'll have to cut bangs, I'm afraid...
...described by Novelist Rawlings as a scrawny, narrow-shouldered runt), is acted with clean competence-a mite too clean -by handsome Gregory Peck, 6ft. 3 in. Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face & figure are a glamorized caricature of the novel's bulky Ma Baxter...
...swap of 148 U.S. and British schoolteachers (TIME, Dec. 23) was not all a warm handshake across the sea. Pueblo, Colo, sent a teacher to London, got in exchange a pert, plain-spoken London schoolmarm named Miss Alice Elliott. When the Pueblo Lions Club asked for her honest impressions of U.S. schooling, Teacher Elliott startled the local Lions with a little roaring of her own. Excerpts...
...strike was orderly and well-mannered. The greatest hardship wrought was that on screen star Mary Martin. Stopping at the Savoy with her husband, pert Mary had to cook their dinner (canned chicken and coffee) on an electric plate. Said she: "We only blew out one tiny little fuse...
...Dear Madame, I should like to attend the dance Saturday night. I am a veteran, 5 feet, 10 inches, with blond hair, blue eyes, and subdued emotions." Cooed one pert Wellesley Freshman, "Just what we are looking forward...