Word: pert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stewardesses want to turn into Kiwis. Last week seven blue-suited American stewardesses, all approaching 32 or past it, sparked a labor dispute by insisting that a girl's wings should not be clipped because of age. "Do I look like an old bag?" asked a pert 35-year-old who, like 70 other over-32 American stewardesses, is still flying under a waiver because she joined American before it established its grounding policy in 1953. The stewardesses' protest was no mere girlish outburst: they also seek higher wages and fewer hours in the new contract that...
...tradition-minded Englishmen were horrified to find that the 1963 model Britannia looks more like Miss Blackpool than the dumpy dowager who has traditionally ruled the waves from the nation's coins and bank notes. Stripped of her Roman helmet and a good deal of her heft, the pert new Britannia has a becoming shoulder-length hairdo to replace the sausage curls she has worn since Victorian times, even sports a toga that looks as if it had been designed by Emilio Pucci rather than the Emperor Hadrian. A spokesman for the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street groped...
...clan. At Meribel-les-Allues was Brigitte Bardot, just divorced again, and her ever-steady Sami Frey. Just a yodel away at Megève was her ex-husband. Director Roger (And God Created Woman) Vadim, 35, with his constant protegee and fiancée of 18 months, pert Cinemactress Catherine Deneuve, 19, who blissfully posed for photographers and even offered the reporter from Paris-Presse her secret clue to success. "To keep the love of a man," said she, "a woman should restrain herself from becoming his official wife...
...York's Democratic Representative Samuel S. Stratton picked up some publicity in a vain try for his party's gubernatorial nomination. But Republicans outregister Democrats in his new district, and he is up against a pert state senator Mrs. Janet Hill Gordon...
Dryden did it for Virgil, Pope for Homer. A few living poets have recently produced such elegant efforts as Richmond Lattimore's Iliad and Robert Fitzgerald's Odyssey. But to four lively classicists at the University of Texas, who have just launched a pert quarterly called Arion, the field cries out for even zestier treatment. Arion has set out to banish the philological quibbling and fusty Victorian translations that have stupefied students for generations. Applying the verbal and visual techniques of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure...