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Word: pert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of I Love Melvin, pert Debbie Reynolds impersonates a football in a gridiron dance number. Donald O Connor does a tap dance on roller skates and goes through some amusing rapid costume changes in a photographer's gallery. But the picture leaves O'Connor's musical-comedy talents largely untapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Blonde Patricia McCormick, 23, who left Texas Western College two years ago determined to master the rugged art of bullfighting, survived her first "baptism of blood." The pert torera, who made her professional debut in Juárez last year and has faced some 20 bulls in small rings, was practicing passes with a small but sharp-horned cow on a ranch near Aguascalientes. Mexico. In the middle of a pass, Pat snapped her cape too quickly. The cow charged and gored her in the right thigh. In the hospital, where doctors treated a ten-inch gash, Pat said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 26, 1953 | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

Bloodhounds of Broadway has some fast Runyonesque patter and a couple of spry tunes. Mitzi Gaynor brings a pert personality and youthful sparkle to her singing, dancing and acting, while the dog stars, Mister and Blondie, a pair of bloodhounds cast in the title roles of Nip & Tuck, are a howl with their own particular brand of doleful dramatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...confused with a statue in the Louvre, this Venus is a cow. The hero, David Niven, sheds his kilts to bring the captive back to England (because she is a rare breed and important to the war effort). On the way over, by submarine naturally, he picks up pert Glynis Johns, who is one of the Island's rulers masquerading as an army cook, as well as the oddest expeditionary force in movie history. On the way back Venus has a calf and David and Glynis discover true love. But it's in between the going over and the coming...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Island Rescue and Ivory Hunters | 9/26/1952 | See Source »

...Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill himself rolled up in his black Daimler, escorted by motorcycle cops and wreathed in cherubic smiles. Then came the bride, blue-eyed, reddish-blonde and glowing like an English hedge rose in her swirling pink dress (which she had designed herself) and pert, close-fitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Anthony & Clarissa | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

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