Word: alert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Credit for tipping President Roosevelt off personally on the case against Boss Pendergast was given to Missouri's Governor Lloyd C. Stark, handsome, 53-year-old Democrat of military background and bearing, famed for the apples ("Stark's Delicious") which his father raised before him. For alert Governor Stark a Presidential trial balloon promptly went up last week in the famed "Washington Merry-Go-Round" (syndicated column by Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen...
...present into meaningful relationship, restore to past works of art their lost context and meaning, relate art to the common run of experience, override the compartments we have built for convenience, recognize the present as a legitimale subject for investigation, and cultivate in themselves and their students an intellectually alert relation to the kinds of experience which not only the past has bequeathed us, but which also the present makes possible...
Said Post Office Superintendent William J. Dixon, defending his selection of a blonde secretary: "She is alert, apt, quick, energetic . . . best suited. You Senators and others call at my office and it is necessary that you all be courteously treated...
...acting ability and a pair of lyric legs. But her outstanding quality as a movie star is a frank and homegrown air which both U. S. and foreign audiences recognize as essentially American. In spite of her two marriages (moderate for Hollywood) she represents the American Girl, 1939 model-alert, friendly, energetic, elusive. Less eccentric than Carole Lombard, less worldly-wise than Myrna Loy, less impudent than Joan Blondell, she has a careless self-sufficiency which they lack. As a dancer, Ginger Rogers has been immensely improved by her association with Astaire, who works out the routines for most...
Should Mr. Shields be so unfortunate as to fracture his hip, lie in a hospital eight weeks, flat on his back in a Bradford frame, leg being stretched by ropes and pulleys and weights, said leg being held immobile by a yard-long sandbag on either side, an alert physician and a bevy of nurses standing by like eagle-eyed engineers, he will learn that one may be kept from "tossing about in the throes of sleep" until he may hatch out a whole dozen eggs "scrambling" nary a one, and no "marvel" at all. "This astonishing muscular control" will...