Word: alert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strata of middle-class stockbrokers and dock workers a great section of Britons had been more or less aroused last week to one of their characteristic hates. But the ruling class, "the families," remained serene for the time being and, as represented in His Majesty's Government, alert to seize their political opportunity...
...quiniet of giggle ettes frina past Leavitt's their generous forms rivalled only by the generality of their smile. A seasoned Harvardian looks up, perceives, and turns into Liggett's screne in the knowledge that less-knowing classmates are secure against such sirens, the guardian watching is over alert...
...last week the alert New York Evening Journal beat its rivals to the street by more than one hour with pictures of Sophie Crempa's funeral (see p. 16). Because an hour is more than 60 minutes-as time is reckoned by afternoon newspapers, the Journal's scoop was noteworthy. Its secret was to be found on the roof of the huge East River plant which houses both of William Randolph Hearst's New York newspapers...
...Nobel Peace Prize for Soviet Foreign Commissar "Maxie" Litvinoff was urged last week by the Swedish association, Friends of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile Comrade Litvinoff's alert British-born wife, Ivy, won her three-year fight to get Dictator Stalin to order every Red Army soldier to learn "Basic English," a simplified vocabulary of 850 words in which it is supposed to be possible to express almost any thought. First English books to be read by Red Soldiers: Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels re-written in Basic...
Thoughtful drama observers, who believe that to be healthy the Theatre should be sensitive to the times, predicted that Life's Too Short was the beginning of a long series of plays alert to problems of social justice but more fitted for popular consumption than last season's rash of "agitprop" (TIME, June...