Word: pertness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Platinum to Molokai. For the next five years, with "That Girl" by his side (small, pert, blond Geraldine Siebolds Pyle was a Government girl when he married her in 1925), Columnist Pyle roved the highways & byways of the Western Hemisphere. He crisscrossed the continent 35 times, wore out three automobiles. He wrote about anything that took his fancy: soap, dogs, doctors, the art of rolling a cigaret, hotel bellhops, hotel rooms, how to build a picket fence, his troubles with a stuck zipper in his pants. He went to Alaska and wrote about being shaved by a woman barber...
...soon as the lecture ended, the President was challenged by Mrs. Elizabeth May Craig, pert, irrepressible correspondent for a group of Maine newspapers. Said May Craig: everything the President has said about the case, she had read in the newspapers and heard over the radio. Smilingly, the President doubted her word. Where did she read it? At the tag end of some newspaper stories? Surely not in the lead, he said, for he had read the papers thoroughly on his vacation and he had not seen such an account. He had, he added, been specializing in reading newspapers...
Follow the Girls falls short of perfection. But for the unchoosy pleasure-seekers and visiting firemen who swarm over Broadway, it should nicely fill the bill. It spills over with good humor. It boasts a lot of good people-likably tough Singer Gertrude Niesen, likably loony Comic Jackie Gleason, pert Dancer Dorothy Keller, graceful Ballerina Irina Baronova. Its dancing has zest and spin. Its girls are good-looking, its sets handsome, its costumes stylish...
...file with the Association was a formal protest against the exclusion of women from the party. Its author was Mrs. Elizabeth May Craig, correspondent for four Maine papers, pert president of the Women's National Press Club (TIME, June...
Second-fiddling the fun is pert, legsome June Havoc (Pal Joey), cast as a lady bullfighter from the States, and given to such rhymed ruefulness...