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...Command. Eaker's arrival in England coincided with Harris' appointment as chief of the big British bombers. Eaker is a frequent guest at the Harris home, is a favorite of Harris' small daughter Jackie. He gives her chocolate from his Post Exchange ration. She gives him pert talk, hints delicately that he is getting bald...
They published this side by side with the official police photo-a puffy, bloody, battered face (see cuts). The Civil Liberties Committee rounded up Brinkley and two others arrested with Melendes-a pert little whore named Wanita Johnson and a soldier named Private Edward Buckshot...
...which (for no better reason than the foregoing) brings us to a resolution prohibiting wives in Cowie Hall which we hereby introduce knowing very well that you won't approve of it. Chief reason is that while the ladies are very pert indeed they are bad for the digestion of midshipmen in general and Middies Grodman and Abasambra in particular who can be seen oggle-eyed at the table any night of the week you care to look at them instead of peering intentedly at the women yourself. (Note to Middies Burke, Johnson and Burke--we're only appreciating what...
Roundabout is Straightaway. Those who attend Presidential press conferences know May Craig as the small, pert woman who always gets to the front row, always asks deft, roundabout questions in a far-from-timid voice. When President Roosevelt's reticence in disclosing his Third Term plans had the U.S. in a dither, May noticed that some of his naval prints had been removed from the conference-room walls. Instead of asking the direct Third...
Brought together in Mexico City's radio station XEW by the first south-of-the-border broadcast of a big-time U.S.. program were Rumania's ex-King Carol, Mistress Magda Lupescu, U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith and wife Marion, pert Puppet Charlie McCarthy and Dandier Edgar Bergen. "Hi, horseface!" yipped Charlie, staring down from the stage at a U.S. Embassy attaché's small son. The audience guffawed, thinking he was addressing McCarthy-fan Carol, who has acquired that nickname in certain Mexico City circles...