Word: pert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with a pert tongue, a figure that no man can keep his hands off, and "the voice of a bird flying at dun twilight over the western plains...
Beverly Baker, 20, a pert, sloe-eyed redhead from Santa Monica, is less singleminded. "I hate the grind of practicing. I don't like living out of a suitcase. In fact, I don't care much for traveling. I like home." But on the court Beverly is all business, takes quiet pride in the fact that she is the only player in big-time tennis who can shift hands for each shot: "I play a gambling game, looking for quick winners. Why drag a match out for two hours if you can get it over with...
...George Washington chopped down that tree so he could get a cherry for his Old Fashioned," revealed pert Delphina Brownlee, noted 18th century poetess, last night. In honor of Miss Brownlee, there will be no Crime tomorrow...
...Manhattan on business, pert Perfume-Maker Mile. Gabrielle ("No. 5") Chanel, sixtyish, had a tip for American women: "Age is no matter. You can be ravishing at 20, charming at 40, and irresistible the rest of your life...
...element of likeness in Thirkell novels is that practically all of them are about the gentry of Barsetshire-the English "county" created by Novelist Anthony Trollope for his own convenience and taken over by Novelist Thirkell. There is little further resemblance between them. Where Trollope was gruff, Thirkell is pert; where he peered keen-sightedly, she drops a whimsical, astigmatic glance. Trollope loved a knotty plot, but Thirkell prefers to meander undramatically through Barsetshire, finding husbands for her heroines and painting the local watercolors. When in doubt as to what to say next, she just says: "The months moved...