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...strike was orderly and well-mannered. The greatest hardship wrought was that on screen star Mary Martin. Stopping at the Savoy with her husband, pert Mary had to cook their dinner (canned chicken and coffee) on an electric plate. Said she: "We only blew out one tiny little fuse...
...Dear Madame, I should like to attend the dance Saturday night. I am a veteran, 5 feet, 10 inches, with blond hair, blue eyes, and subdued emotions." Cooed one pert Wellesley Freshman, "Just what we are looking forward...
...Pert, talented Author Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney was born with revolt in her veins. Said she: "My mother, whose maiden name was Flynn, was an Irish nationalist. ... In my Sunday school . . . my sister Eileen and I were evicted for having pernicious views." Along the rocky road to fame, as the writer of a zany best-seller and slick Hollywood scenarios, Ruth McKenney paused to join the Communist Party. Her corpuscles promptly began to tingle again. A 1940 sample: "The Second Imperialist War ... is a fight among thieves, a bloody quarrel among the vultures...
...produced by the black market: the village went up the crag. The daughters of Dr. Faure, impoverished by war and inflation, had turned the castle into a hotel, stayed on to manage it. Among their first customers were bashful, leathernecked Pierre Barrière, a railroad worker, and his pert, white-satined bride, Jane Cantarel. Their horny-handed wedding guests, stimulated by wine and altitude, made the bishops' terrace ring with the raucous Les Montagnards (The Mountain People...
...Pert, red-haired little Bidu Sayao was born into one of Rio's wealthiest families 39 years ago. She made her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan in 1937, became famed for her slight-voiced but lyrically graceful Manon, Mimi (in La Bohème) and Meéisande...