Word: pert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one morning last week, a pert young blonde stuck her head through a rinkside doorway at Philadelphia's Arena and called to a friend across...
...husband's rise in business is not only a social asset but a personal one. Such a woman often strengthens her husband when he fears failure, acting as a 'sounding board' for him, helps him formulate his ambitions. She does not need to be an ex pert in his business; she does not even need to be very well-informed about it. But she does need some sophistication and understanding of the general world in which he and his associates operate...
...Hoffmann had some serviceable singing by the large cast, with Tenor Richard Tucker in particularly mellow voice and French Baritone Martial Singher singing with enormous power and control. Roberta Peters was the pert doll. The standout was Soprano Lucine Amara. who brought to the stage the kind of dazzling vocal splendor that made the Met famous. The sound of her voice was eggshell-fragile, sunset-colored, and so surprisingly powerful that the audience burst into cheers at the end of her big aria...
...grandmother Carver, who lives in a first-floor room of the big white house and knits delicate white bedspreads for her young relatives. There on a visit may be Joe's married sister, Mrs. Donneita Lampley. At the supper table too will be Joe's mother, pert, determined Thelma Ashley Carver Moore, now 44, who, in addition to her heavy household duties, holds down the job of Jackson County School Supervisor. She still finds time, once a year, to pack her husband into a car and go on a long trip (several years ago Joe quit going along...
...prison in the little Normandy town of Pont-l'Evéque were an unimaginative crew-mostly drunks, chicken thieves, wife-beaters and petty racketeers-and their prison life was as dreary as their crimes. Then, on a certain hot afternoon in July, a new warden took over. Pert as a pouter pigeon, rotund little Fernand Billa was a jailer less interested in penology than in poetry and strong pastis (a variant of absinthe). With plenty of verses and good drink to hand, Billa could find even a prison wilderness paradise enow...