Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here is Barrie leaping the barriers of restraint. The play brims with mocking, alert humor, almost Gilbertian in the intent to set the world right by standing it on its head. It is filled with nimble characterization, satirizing everything boldly, from headwaiters to financial heirarchs. But it is a question whether the tired business man will quite enjoy being banged over the head so liberally...
scrappy spirit which characterized the Andover match. The players were not alert and lost a number of opportunities to strike at their opponent's goal. Last Saturday, however, the team demonstrated some real hockey and clearly overwhelmed the Andover...
...Lois Selfridge, mother of Gordon Selfridge, London merchant: "I was among the passengers that arrived in Manhattan on the Olympic. Said the newspapers: 'Mme. Selfridge is now in her 90th year, although few of those who conversed with her on the ship would believe it, so alert and active is she in every sense...
Dixon enters the finals of the tournament as a result of his defeat yesterday of Caroll Harrington '24 in straight sets, 15-12, 18-16, 15-13. In this match Dixon had control of the situation the entire time, although Harrington kept him on the alert, and forced him to his best game...
...Captain Mallory and to his splendid team--worthy to rank among the great elevens of any university of all time--Harvard is only too anxious to do honor. Alert and powerful, Yale earned on Saturday the victory she deserved and which the most trying conditions imaginable could not mar. Harvard is proud of her record of victories over Yale, but she can never forget how to lose nor how to honor the team which broke her record of success...