Word: alert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small pinhole could make such a difference. Of course, if there had been another small neat hole at the other end, but - well, more power to them in their dilemma. Please, Mr. Editor, do not let the unraveling of this mystery in a mystery escape unnoted by your alert London correspondent. And may I suggest that he be severely reprimanded for almost omitting, let alone giving only six and one-half lines to what might turn out to be the greatest mystery since "somebody hit Billy Patterson!" Here's "egg" in your eye for bigger and better mysteries! WILLIAM...
...President Garner; that the Post Office Department has been willing to hold up a mail plane for an hour or so to suit the convenience of a Cord hot-shot official. But none of these harmless facts webs with others to produce any picture other than that of an alert organization headed by an astute, scheming, self-effacing businessman who knows how and where grand parsnips can be found and buttered. His suspicious critics notwithstanding, it is impossible to read anything subtle into the grandiose interview Errett Cord gave out last year in Kansas City. Excerpts: "There is more opportunity...
...Rome he managed to win an art competition prize, to climb the dome of St. Peter's and carve his initials higher than any previous vandal. He remained there two years or less; an alert guard caught him climbing a nunnery wall and he returned to Saragossa where he was promptly given a commission to decorate a church...
...objecting mail, not all from brokers and businessmen but even from schoolteachers and pastors. In the Senate Banking Committee such innocuous sections of the bill as the declaration of public policy (with which even President Whitney of the Stock Exchange found no fault) were centres of rousing wrangles. Alert to the wind's way, Senate Majority Leader Robinson last week called the bill "very extreme," adding: "I believe we will pass a stockmarket bill which will not damage anyone excessively and still be effective." Speaker of the House Rainey said: "I haven't talked with many Committee members...
...RECKONING-Leane Zugsmith- Smith & Haas ($2.50). As the Old Guard of U. S. novelists gradually dies or fades away without surrendering, new recruits are unostentatiously closing up gaps in the ranks. When the next dress parade is held, alert reviewers will see among the new faces that of Author Leane Zugsmith. Her fourth novel, The Reckoning, is a book of such competent maturity that it qualifies her automatically for a place in the second rank. In the regimental line her position is a little left of centre. Carolyn was a public-school teacher in a tough quarter of Manhattan. Intelligent...