Word: pert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pert, brunette Evelyn Caldwell, 42, who writes the "Penny Wise" shopping column for the Vancouver Sun (circ. 161,603), got a chance two months ago at a free air trip to Australia. When she asked Sun Publisher Don Cromie's permission to go, Cromie meditatively twirled the globe on his desk. "You know," he said, "Korea is only about four inches from Australia. You'd better drop in there and see how our boys are making...
...Thames having a little more bounce than usual, it still makes the British capital a road company of Paris, so far as esprit is concerned . . . The Rue Blondel maisons de tolerance have long since been outlawed, [but] the prosties [on the streets] are as surprising in their pert good looks and simple good taste in clothes as in the plenitude of numbers...
...Boston this week, one of the few world religions to spring from the U.S. held its annual meeting. The 7,500 Christian Scientists who assembled at the Mother Church on Falmouth Street elected a new president for the one-year term: pert, sixtyish Lora C. Rathvon, widow of' William R. Rathvon, who was corresponding secretary to Founder Mary Baker Eddy herself...
...week it was a tree bursting into full growth from an acorn planted a moment before. Another time it was a water pail apparently defying the law of gravitation. A regular Garroway feature is his "girl multiplier," that once put 64 identical shots of pert Singer Bette Chapel on the TV screen at one time. Most of the stunts owe their success to a pair of studio carpenters named Weeland Risser and Ralph Doremus,who,in their pre-TV days, happened to work for Magicians Thurston and Blackstone...
...Dancer Babilée, 27, chose the ballet which first brought him fame, Le Jeune Homme. His role: that of a young artist who is abandoned by his sweetheart. In the violent, Apache-like dances that the ballet calls for, he revolved around his taunting sweetheart (beautifully danced by pert Nathalie Philippart, his wife) with the intensity of an angry bird. His tremendous leaps, over chairs and tables, were sudden darts into the air. Even with its hanging scene, Le Jeune Homme (danced incongruously to the Bach C Minor Passacaglia) was no great ballet. But the fans found plenty...