Word: pertness
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...Pert Dilemma...
...valued periodical reached me, I . . . measured the Baldwin shelf. To be accurate, the two shelves sagging under the output of somewhat less than 30 years, thank you, measure, together, eight feet . . . I would be beholden to you if you would inform me in what sense you used the adjective "pert." I have consulted my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and find myself confounded. The early meanings run "open, unconcealed, manifest." A very early (and pleasant) usage is translated as "beautiful." Later, the meaning became "smart, dapper." From there we go on to "sharp, intelligent, adroit and clever." And if this were...
Look Out for Liza is the 65th novel by pert Author Baldwin, 56, who for about 30 years has fizzed fiction like an inexhaustible literary pop bottle. Almost every drop of it has been eagerly lapped up by the women's magazines...
...Champs Elysées a pert little streetwalker, old enough to remember tussles with loud and lusty liberating G.I.s in the Place Pigalle, tolerantly watched a fat and fatherly U.S. Army master sergeant padding down the street, Leica and guidebook in hand, followed at two paces by his German wife, at two paces more by his two blond children. "Man Dieu," she murmured to a grinning policeman, "how the Americans have changed...
Last week the P-D's determined campaign got action in official Washington. The House subcommittee on immigration gave Ellen Knauff her first full public hearing. Wearing a pert sailor hat and a smart suit, Mrs. Knauff made an appealing and convincing witness; she blamed a jealous ex-sweetheart of her husband's for spreading "gossip" that she was a spy. Offered an opportunity to submit its own evidence and to question Mrs. Knauff, the Department of Justice refused on the ground that it would jeopardize its intelligence sources. With no evidence against Mrs. Knauff, the committee unanimously...