Word: pert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening ripped along. Two student-type males moved into a table across from us with two Wellesley type girls. Their order, two scotches and two cokes, was taken. The men lit cigars and Jeaned back while the girls beat frantically on the table. A pert female photographer saw them and invitingly addressed the leader of the repp-tied party. "How about a picture, sonny?" He picked up his drink, took a careful swallow, and consulted the group. "Sure, baby, sure," he said...
...Girls. Chicago's Gillette Elvgren, a whiz in this field, did Fresh Breeze. He says that all his girls are "the Minnesota type, naive and fresh"-eyes set wide apart, nose pert and short, lips full-small waist, long legs, full bust-age, preferably under 21 -and "they've got to be alive." Elvgren's stereotyped girls may not come alive on canvas, but they do in people's minds...
Susan Hayward, 32, a pert-nosed, durable redhead who after 29 routine pictures is being molded to super siren parts. Her current picture: David and Bathsheba...
Then last week the A.P. sent out the captioned picture below showing Miss Paik of Pyongyang, sergeant in the Communist "Reception Personnel", with a copy of TIME'S July 23 issue opened to the story about her. "Pert in an olive jacket and blue skirt" (as the story described her), she had said that she wanted a unified Korea, then discreetly smiled off a question about who should run it. Perhaps this story about her is not the only reason for her intent look. On that same page a picture box reported thousands of South Koreans demonstrating against...
...they saw were two M.P.s directing traffic with burp guns slung from their shoulders. (Admiral Joy had agreed to a "necessary minimum" of armed Communist soldiers.) Outside the conference building (newly designated by the Communists as "United Nations House") they found two North Korean officers and a woman sergeant, pert in an olive jacket and blue skirt, who turned out to be a Miss Paik of Pyongyang. The three told the U.N. convoy commander they were there to provide any services they could...