Word: pertness
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...this time General Altamirano, who had forced the President to name him Vice President, had succeeded in establishing a military Directorate. Alleged to be baffled by Parliament, the Directorate, in the pert Mussolini manner, gave the President six months leave of absence and off went Senor Alessandri to Argentina...
Pigs is the family album come to life. The crotchety old country grandma; the overworked mother and father; the languid uncle who will not work; the gossipy, relentlessly pert daughter who has engaged herself to the son of the house, whose great ambition is to become a veterinary: such is the assemblage. To give them excuse for talking through three acts, a drove of ailing pigs is introduced. The son wants to buy the pigs, cure them, sell for a plump profit that will take the mortgage off the house. Eventually he does so. In the meanwhile, there...
...think that it was a good and useful institution. It might have been inconvenient, it might have been disagreeable, but the judgment of the student was certain to pronounce it salutary. Of course there must always have been some grumbling; there must have been in some quarters a pert condemnation of it; but such feelings must have been confined to the petulant and visionary. The average sense of the community pronounced without hesitation for public and obligatory prayer as a natural and becoming practice...
...pert way so true...
...takes her leave. She hasn't decided just yet where she s going or what she'll do, but she has been enjoying the best rooms in the house for some time, and thinks it but fair to move out and permit her sisters, staid '83, frivolous '84, and pert '85, to take up their quarters "first floor up, front." And then, to be sure, she wants to make room for the brightly varnished cradle of her baby sister, '86. Let us hope that '82 has been living so carefully, and has kept her trinkets in such good order that...