Word: alert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Menace. U. S. chemical manufacturers are alarmed. Francis P. Garvan, alert President of the Chemical Foundation in New York and spokesman for U. S. producers, regards the combination as a menace. Said he last week: "Is there an American with soul so dead as not to thrill at this threat? . . . What was our position in 1914? That position can come again and will come again unless all the American people unite against this combine threatening their peace and their prosperity. . . . Don't make the mistake of thinking this is a dye fight, or a nitrate fight, or a rayon...
None of the devices were entirely new. Many were improvements or modifications of older models. Most were things that alert businessmen already owned and up-and-coming executives planned to buy. Some of them...
Last week sparse-haired, big-browed Walter Sherman Gifford, nervously alert A. T. & T. President, told a convention of railroad and utility commissioners at Dallas, Tex., that to cut a melon was poor policy. Said he: "Earnings must either be spent for the enlargement and improvement of the service furnished or the rates charged for the service must be reduced." And the A. T. & T. stock (which had risen during the year from a low price of 149¼ to a high price of 185½) sank to 173 as expectations of added profits vanished. Brokers trading...
Suddenly a great boom disturbed the comparative quiet?the sound of artillery fire. Boom! Coffee cups stopped halfway to open mouths. Boom! Newspapers fell to the breakfast table. Boom! Boom! Boom! Inert bodies squirmed between the sheets. Boom! Boom! Boom! Alert businessmen and women resigned themselves to a long count?they hoped it would be a very long count. Boom! Boom! Boom! Twenty-one blank shots, in all, were fired. Ears strained for the 22nd. The pause grew longer and longer, but the 22nd boom never came...
...Revue, in Hitchy-Koo, in Up in the Clouds?" It was that same pretty girl, native of Jellicoe, Tenn., one-time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried her to the top of the musical stardom, to join the All-American Grand Opera Company in France. Now her cycle returns...