Word: pert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lancelot. A world war and stranger-than-fiction real inventions had furnished competitive excitements that made Tom .seem a little archaic. The paper shortage did not help, and almost as disastrous was the decision of Author Victor Appleton, Tom's creator, to let his hero marry sweet, pert Mary Nestor. Any ten-year-old boy could have told him that girl mush and Tom Swift just did not mix. To many a saddened fan it seemed best that Tom should...
...mainspring of the mantrap, Lauren Bacall is the least convincing of the three. She does her work with a reptile eye and a cold, slit grin. Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand, is pert and comfortable as a not-so-dumb blonde who doesn't like to wear glasses for fear men won't make passes. Betty Grable, a performer who has always appeared to have just about as much above the eyebrows as below, carries off the show with such scenes as the one in which she arrives with her millionaire friend at his "lodge" in Maine...
...like every American girl-be simple," urged Paris Dressmaker Jean Desses last summer, when his favorite customer announced that she was planning a trip to the U.S. and needed some new things to wear. The Queen of Greece, the pert, petite lady to whom he spoke, seized on the good advice. She had only one royal admonition to offer. "I have a tiny waist,"* she said, "and I want to show...
...heroine, Maggie McNamara has a pert, wide-eyed, fresh-scrubbed charm. David Niven is appropriately debonair as the playboy. In the role of the architect, William Holden does one of his easy, authoritative acting jobs, that is all the more effective for not seeming like acting at all. The trio of leading characters appear as likable, essentially well-behaved people, in a picture that is always sophisticated, literate and in good taste...
Last week, on Denmark's Grundlovsdag (Constitution Day), King Frederik IX promised his people another Queen, another Margrethe. At Christiansborg Castle, he signed a new Constitution in which the succession-for the first time-is guaranteed to the female line, and specifically to his pert, 13-year-old daughter, Margrethe...