Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world knows a certain horse-jawed, long-nosed, highbrowed countenance with deep cheek grooves beside the wide mouth; eyes hooded, alert and slanting slightly downward into a squint at the outside corners; the high, narrow cranium flanked by lean temples and longish ears. It is not an uncommon face in the U. S. but a single man brought its fame far above the fame of many another face-Woodrow Wilson. Today the type is perhaps best seen in onetime Editor Edward W. Bok of the Ladies' Home Journal, who last week bestowed $150,000 upon Princeton University...
Foreign Minister Stresemann of the Reich, known because of his alert opportunism as "the Lloyd George of Germany," was lauded to the skies by German journals of every party last week when he made public the text of the Russo-German Neutrality Treaty which he and Foreign Minister Tchitcherin of the Soviet Union (TIME, Oct. 12) have been quietly preparing, by secret negotiation, for some months...
...business men of Butte, the strangers will find alert, vigorous, cordial. But about the streets, even among the throng at the station entrance, they will see another type, for the I. W. W. make the city one of their strongholds...
...Capitols of Minnesota, West Virginia, Arkansas, the customs house in Manhattan, the public libraries in St. Louis and Detroit, the state universities of Minnesota and Texas. Poring over a draftboard has made him near-sighted ; he wears a pince-nez. He dresses dapperly; has a manner at once alert and suave. All his work, like his face, possesses a balanced, grave handsomeness: it meets all demands with that superb adequacy which is the aptest test of architecture, an art in which inspiration must yield to practicability. An architect who was always inspired would be a failure. On one of those...
...ALERT READERS...