Word: alert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem shapeless the cinema learned an easy trick from Grand Hotel. The mishaps and heroics of Channel Crossing occur on a boat from Dover to Calais. The minor passengers, all garrulous in British accents as thick as the fog that comes down half way across the Channel, are what alert cinemaddicts expect to find in such surroundings: a comic cuckold (Nigel Bruce), a terse captain, a deck steward with a teething baby. Lang performs with too much solemnity, but a sound formula and good acting by handsome Constance Cummings make the picture another British threat to Hollywood. Typical shot...
...rather than to do it as a more expensively produced and less widely distributed $1 book. This response is unique in our experience, and not only shows how remarkably large a group of people read the correspondence column of TIME and how carefully they read it, but also how alert is their interest in a subject of importance. DANIEL LONGWELL...
What interested alert Walter Howey most was the fact that Mr. Hearst, at 71, still has every one of his teeth and reads newspapers without glasses. And he either plays two hard sets of tennis or rides a spirited horse 15 or 20 miles every afternoon before going for a swim. That, said Walter Howey, should be put on the record. He persuaded the Chief to let an M-G-M cameraman take action pictures of him on the court. Back in Manhattan last week he offered the pictures to all the Press...
Saks Fifth Avenue has long been a leader in swank merchandising, and its modernistic window dressing is a model for all alert storekeepers. Chief credit for the Saks' smartness is usually given to Herbert L. Redman, onetime printer's apprentice who emigrated from Great Britain at 20. Last week, haying titillated the classes for some ten years. Storekeeper Redman went downtown to see if he could excite the masses as managing director of Saks 34th Street. Back in Manhattan last week after a six-month trip around the world was Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, gay, hard-bitten speculator...
...speed of the ship, her having to make a schedule, the ill-favor of steamship companies for captains who are continually late, etc., more will come out in the investigation. The fact remains that although the "Olympic's" officers claim that she was proceeding at a "moderate" speed with alert look-outs posted, the collision occurred before the ship could be stopped; and that although the lightship knew she was in danger of collision the crew was not so disposed so that a quick escape with life preservers could be possible. This first instance of a lightship sinking because...