Word: pert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pert as a field lily, Bobby and Ethel Kennedy's eldest daughter Kathleen went forth to meet the photographers on the occasion of her 16th birthday, wearing a size 8, art-nouveau print shift. Right beside her stood another of the Kennedy birthday girls, wearing an identical, size 8 print shift, with a pair of white-mesh mod stockings thrown in for kicks. "You can say I'm 72," joked Rose Kennedy, "but please don't mention that it came from me." So the Boston Globe printed that she was 72 and didn...
Died. Eugenia Childs Westmoreland, 81, mother of General William Westmoreland, commander in chief of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, a tiny (5 ft.), genteel Southern lady who recently greeted talk of her son as presidential timber with a pert, "Oh my, he's too young to be President"; of congestive heart failure; in Columbia...
...would also join them for lunch down the block at the Hotel Algonquin's fabled conversational Klatsch, the Round Table; among its other members were such quotables as Alexander Woollcott, Franklin Pierce Adams, Heywood Broun, Harold Ross, Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman. She was pert, provocative, blinking her hazelgreen eyes or raising her pencil-arched eyebrows until they touched the line of her dark bangs as she delivered her acerbic ripostes...
...herself, and eventually she loses a girl friend by stealing a boy friend. As the junior vamp, Canada's Genevieve Bujold also walks off with the show. Featured in Alain Resnais' La Guerre Est Finie (TIME, Feb. 3), Bujold at 24 displays a confident talent and a pert, dark beauty that suggests the imminent emergence of a star...
...Direct from our newsroom in New York-in color-this is the CBS Evening for News, with Arnold Zenker substituting for Walter Cronkite and. . ." Arnold Zenker? Across the U.S. last week, televiewers gawked curiously at the unfamiliar faces-balding salesmen, pert secretaries, scrubbed junior executives-telling about "Veet Nom," "Cheeze Juftif Warren," "cloddy skies" and "mosterly easterly winds." All, like 28-year-old Arnold Zenker, manager of program administration for CBS, were filling in-and sometimes falling apart-for regular newscasters as the result of a strike called by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists...