Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that she was real at all, that her own personality existed outside of the many personalities which it is her ability to inhabit. Under the control of an illusion still, you felt that maybe this was another imitation, that Ruth Draper was really; someone else inside of this small, alert, bowing actress...
William Shelby, acted by Charles "Buddy" Rogers, imaginative, alert, and determined clerk in a high class music store, falls in love with one who is heir to $20,000,000, Mary Brian, who, of course, does not object to him. She does the obvious, but her position in the social world does not long remain a secret. The ship of good fortune, sailing along with spinnakers set runs onto a hidden reef in the form of a pair of Shelby's fortune-hunting friends. Nothing, however, can possibly down our determined music salesman...
...Chileans the Prussians of South America. The comparison is worth remembering. Here is a compact, militant, intensely nationalist people. Though considerably less in number than the residents of New York City, Chileans command official parity among the Great Powers. Thus the U.S. sends an ambassador to 4,000,000 alert Chileans but has never sent more than a minister to 400,000,000 spineless Chinese (see China...
...view of the wit and alert psychological analysis dissipated by Boston newspaper columnists on the falling off in attendance at football mass meetings at Harvard, this kindred slump among the Elis must be regarded as a direct refutation of any explaining cause except that of a saner adjustment of athletic interest in both colleges. It is regrettable that Yale has encroached upon the portion of distaste for crowd hysteria lately and solely possessed by the ten thousand men. But it has done so and what barbs are thrown in the future must be received upon the joined bucklers...
Doctors hope to keep pneumonia low this year. Their best advice is to guard against common colds. If colds develop, the patient should rest in bed and eat nourishing foods. If pneumonia develops, alert doctors this year have a new serum to use. Old ones required three injections to cure. The new one, announced last week by Dr. William Hallock Park of New York City's health department, the man who has done so much bacteriological work to prevent disease, requires but two injections. Its supply so far is scant. Not until December will there be enough...