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Though Edward of Wales often goes about unrecognized, and although Motorist George V has had several encounters with stupid traffic policemen, London editors could not recall that Queen Mary has ever before escaped recognition or suffered pert speech from one of her female subjects...
...season: "Major league pitching is more of a cinch than Coast League," who the week before the Fourth batted .240. They considered National League personalities: those famed roommates and Cincinnati outfielders, Marty Callaghan and Everett ("Pid") Purdy- Callaghan tobacco-chewing, closemouthed, bearing himself with a martyred manner before umpires; pert Purdy, the chatterer, the magpie. They considered Andy Cohen, smart at second for the Giants, surprising at bat, prize of the seven-years' search of Manager McGraw for a Jewish player to pull in the New York crowds. But baseball games are won at bat and it was batters...
...smallest, a pomeranian, Bogota Firebug, minced into the ring on insect legs. Like a mosquito who has been crawling in the fluffy dust under a boarding house bed, he stood, looking up at the crowd with startled, pert malignance...
...This pert headline was published last week by the New York Times...
...This pert headline was published last week by the New York Times...