Word: pertness
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...reporters had also never seen in action a Russian quite so engaging as Jacob M. Lomakin, ex-Tassman, now consul general in New York City. A near-facsimile of cinemanful James Cagney, ebullient Consul Lomakin had no battery of deadpan advisers; behind him at each session sat a pert and pretty Russian blonde. Unlike icily aloof Andrei Gromyko, Lomakin chatted easily with those near him. He called the other delegates "fellow experts," and he uttered such un-Soviet statements as "We don't need to be consulting Moscow all the time," and "I will go along with what...
Married. Arline Judge, 35, pert-faced cinemactress; and Henry J. (Bob) Topping, 33, tin-plate heir; she for the fifth time (her second: Dan Topping, brother of the current groom), he for the third; in Miami Beach...
...Pert Miss Cushner has been the object of more than one glance herself, as she burrows through the musty stacks, preparing three papers for Vassar courses to make up for the time lost when she was laid up in the infirmary for seven weeks...
...Even the pert brunette seated at the Hygiene Department's receiving desk can't make an impression on a special group of students who visit the ivy-covered building at 15 Holyoke almost daily seeking relief from a peculiar seasonal malady...
...quiet, pleasant weekend, a welcome change from the Washington hurlyburly. He found his mother pert and chipper, saw his old Battery D mates, went early to bed after dinner in his Hotel Muehlebach suite. His only official duty was a three-minute radio address in honor of Franklin D. Roosevelt...