Word: pert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swarm of landscape gardeners and foresters came in, built an artificial lake to highlight the building. To adorn the setting Sculptor Noguchi chiseled a brooding group of druidical forms, which President Wilde likes but frankly calls "a puzzlement." For the interiors, pert, petite Florence Knoll of Knoll Associates furnished new chairs and desks designed to help tradition-bound insurance executives relax in 12-ft.-by-12-ft. offices surrounded by chrome and bold, cheery fabrics...
...Record. In 1955 he was divorced, after nine years of marriage, two children, from Elsie Rockefeller, great-granddaughter of old John D.'s brother William (she later married a man who helped out on Bill's 1954 campaign). Last December he married Mrs. Ellen Sawall. 32, a pert, Virginia-born Phi Beta Kappa (University of Richmond) with two children, whom he met while she was financial secretary of the state Democratic Party. His political philosophy: down the line with his personal friend Adlai Stevenson, but beyond Stevenson in espousal of federal aid for farmers...
...twitted Du Mont because Liberace had been shoved aside by Johnny Dio and Jimmy Hoffa; but in most bars across the Eastern Seaboard, tipplers clamored for the racket-busters over baseball. Even though she was seated a few yards behind the witness chair in the packed Senate caucus room, pert, brunette Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bob, was glued to a portable monitor set. "You can check out the witnesses so much better this way," said Ethel. "You see their very souls on TV." Ethel Kennedy echoes what many viewers had learned during the Army-McCarthy hearings: TV can make...
...Also last week he learned that he was the object of a nightclub torch song called I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles. Singer: pert Texas Redhead Carol Burnett, 24, at Manhattan's Blue Angel. Sample lyrics (by Ken Welch...
...feminine fashion (oxford shirts, cut-down chinos, cuff links), something new has been added. Perched on pretty heads all along the East Coast, the man's straw is this summer's last word. Sales of the soft straws, reported conservative Brooks Brothers, have been "amazing." Said a pert teen-ager at Long Island's Southampton: "This year you're behind the times unless you're wearing a soft straw...