Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army, in brief, had no effective fighting strength in Puerto Rico. Nobody in San Juan knew this better than did Germany's alert, inquisitive Consul Henry Freese. All he had to do to find out, if he was in any doubt, was to glance at published pictures of the farewell review staged for General Daley in March. One shot showed a battalion at Fort Buchanan, having no rifles, parading with swagger sticks...
This week the Armored Force is to establisn two new divisions: the Third at Camp Polk, La., the Fourth at Pine Camp, N.Y. Selected to command the Third was an alert, progressive officer with an old Army name: Brigadier General Alvan Cullom Gillem Jr. His Union grandfather was in command of the outfit that pursued and killed Confederate General John Hunt Morgan in 1864; his father was a cavalry colonel. His son, Alvan C. Gillem 2nd, West Point basketballer, is now an Air Corps lieutenant. Commander of the Fourth will be Brigadier General Henry W. Baird, who, like General Gillem...
...Being an alert reader of your columns, I regret to find an overdose of letters written to you expressing blatantly a pro-Nazi, or at best a pre-war type of Irish, hate for Britain and its defenders. Let there be no mistake about it, such attitudes are contrary to America's best interests, and carry with them the seeds of distrust and discord concerning our Government. A person is either for democracy or he isn't-there is no compromise stand...
...name: semantic dementia-meaning inability to grasp the ordinary meaning of life as lived by human beings. It is as though, behind the mask of sanity, the emotional mechanism had collapsed, leaving these semi-suicides incapable of love, joy, sorrow, aspiration, regret. When examined in hospitals, they are often alert, bright, cheerful, amiable, sometimes haughty and aloof; but they usually think very highly of themselves, are always wholly callous to the distress they cause others. To the knowing psychiatrist, their eloquent admissions of error and promises to reform are catchwords which have no meaning to the patient but which...
Boss of Reynolds Metals is chunky, thin-haired, alert Richard Samuel Reynolds, nephew of the founder of R. J Reynolds Tobacco Co. He quit the tobacco business in 1912, puttered around for seven years before starting a company to make cigaret foil. Effervescent Richard Reynolds likes to compose poetry while shaving, is now writing a book "to keep sane." Often he lets his enthusiasm overtake his business acumen, once bought the white elephant Woolworth estate on Long Island. But Reynolds Metals blossomed. He revolutionized the packaging business, won prizes with Canada Dry and Hoffman Beverage labels, made Reynolds Metals tops...