Word: pertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike London, Paris has no beauteous peers' daughters standing by their Rolls-Royces in trick uniforms waiting for statesmen to emerge from Government buildings and be whisked away. There are no French sailorettes like the pert British "Wrens." At French air fields no uniformed female auxiliaries lunch gaily with pilots just back from showering Germany with leaflets. The wives of French bigwigs, from Mme Albert Lebrun down, simply do such war work as they can, are notably chary of becoming "honorary president" of this or that...
...Atlantic Clipper from Lisbon came pert, mustachioed J. Frédéric Bloch-Laine to head the French purchasing mission. He is no easy mark for U. S. salesmen-he began buying war goods as a member of France's U. S. mission in World War I. As member of the Paris banking house of Lazard Fréres, he also knows how business between the two countries is done in peacetime. No sooner had word of his arrival spread than eager agents began banging on his door at the French Line offices...
From the only man who ever bought a business* from five Jews and sold it to seven Scotchmen at a profit, this was a dire prophecy. Yet the pert, imaginative magnifico-who cleaned up a cool million in Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. and in 1909 impudently invaded London, with U. S. merchandising methods-had reason to be glum. Three weeks ago he resigned his chairmanship of Selfridge & Co., Ltd., great, gaunt, sprawling department store on Oxford Street west of Oxford Circus, took the inactive, empty post of president...
Among the principals, Pert Kelton creates a slight hiatus with her renditions of "Stick to Your Arithmetic" and "I Was Afraid of That"; if you shut your eyes, Mr. Dixon's voice and tapping is entertaining--but these two score against very mediocre competition. Miss Martin is torrid only when she is coy, but her part herein demands that she be frigid, and hence her occasional attempts at coyness only serve to make her appear ridiculously childish. Furthermore, she has no song suited to either her voice or her personality, and she looks ill and overworked...
...England's pert Pam Barton, 22 and already twice British golf champion, who won the U. S. title three years ago and looked as if she were going to repeat until she met New Jersey's slick-putting Charlotte Glutting in the third round...