Word: pert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notes that were too low for him, Soprano Zinka Milanov let her voice swoop and squawk through Act II, and when she flipped a disguising shawl over her face, she looked so much like an animated teacozy that the audience snickered. Only Roberta Peters' pearly coloratura and pert presence were thoroughly pleasant. But for Marian Anderson the evening was a soaring personal triumph. There were eight curtain calls. "Anderson! Anderson!" chanted the standees, and men and women in the audience wept...
...contrast to Miss Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor adds a bright and pert performance. A few pounds lighter and no longer sassy, she is pleasing for the first time. Another member of the Dailey-Merman family is Johnnic "Cry" Ray, surprisingly cast as a religiously serious showman who becomes a priest. Although his chin wags abnormally when he sings, Ray's style is unique and entertaining...
...private rendezvous with Josane in his Manhattan apartment, the brand-new Brando emerged to pose for photographers in a green Tyrolean hat that suspiciously resembled a homburg, and he comported himself as if he were a rising young banker about to catch the 5:17 for the suburbs. Josane, pert with her carelessly gamin hairdo, looked a trifle moonstruck-but also like a fisherwoman sure of her catch. While in conference with his fiancee, Brando had changed the wedding date: the wild bells would now ring out some time this month...
...Russia use Happy's name to describe a crime they regard as the essence of capitalist decadence. Last week the wife of a U.S. embassy employee in Moscow was officially accused of "hooliganism" and asked to leave the country. According to accounts blared out over Radio Moscow, pert and pretty Mrs. Betty Sommerlatte, whose husband Karl is an embassy second secretary, had viciously punched a Soviet worker in the nose and "brutally pushed" a Russian woman. The abused worker is said to have rejoined: "We, the people of the Soviet Union, are not used to women who use their...
Graham often conducts his morning "meditation" in bed, avoids the telephone, and dictates his newspaper columns, radio scripts and sermons half a dozen at a sitting. The spirit of the home is set by pert, pretty Ruth Bell Graham, who still knows the Bible better than her husband and whose quiet good taste has led a friend to call her "half the explanation for Billy Graham." "Not a day goes by," says Ruth, "when I don't ask the Lord for wisdom: how to bring up the children, how to make this suit, how to do this and that...