Word: alert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oneof the best newsorgans in Germany today is the Frankfurter Zeitung. Its alert editors are not only internationally minded, but are constantly unearthing for their readers amusing and instructive tidbits. Declared the Frankfurter Zeitung, copies of which arrived in Manhattan last week: "We like to think of Vienna as a dream city where lovers sip their wine in soulful reverie pondering only how to please each other. We are mistaken, for last year 35,000 Viennese filed suits for defamation of character because somebody or other had called them 'Trottel' [dumbbell]. . . . These temperamental explosions cost in lawyers...
...William Snow Miller looks like General Custer. William Harvey looked like Shakespeare. Otherwise the two anatomists resemble one another astonishingly. A friend of Harvey described him as short, bright-eyed, quick, alert, choleric, often fingering the handle of his dagger. A friend of Dr. Miller describes him as "a chipper, cheerful, deaf little man, almost military in preciseness and persistence; as high-tempered as he is patient and potent; just, exacting, and opinionated...
...story might have ended there if Frank Monaghan had not had two alert sons, one of them a Yale history instructor. The sons hurried back to Uniontown, got the case reopened. After an autopsy the coroner made some surprising discoveries. His first examination, said he, had been so hurried that he had failed to notice eleven fractured ribs, a fractured jaw, fractured nose, hemorrhage of the brain, hemorrhage of the throat and internal hemorrhages. After a three-day investigation Pennsylvania's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti concluded that Frank Monaghan had been "barbarously and brutally beaten to death...
When daring Spector & Myznikov went so far as to enter the stores singly and have relatives and friends do the same and insist on buying records, alert Stalin Secret Police were soon on the miscreants' trail. They were accused in court last week of reselling their phonograph records privately to more timid Moscow music lovers who make their purchases in the safety of dark alleys rather than in the State Music Stores. The court sentenced Spector & Myznikov to seven years each in jail, gave their accomplice's from six to five years each...
...years, the press has noted that Henry Latham Doherty, 66, whose Cities Service assets foot up to some $1,250,000,000, was visiting Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital for treatments to his ailing throat. Month ago the press discovered that when he visited Temple Hospital, the alert, goateed petroleum tycoon used the name of "Mr. Eggleston." Fact is, Henry Latham Doherty's home is a ten-room apartment on the hospital's top floor where medical attention is never more than a few moments away...