Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richmond, Ohio, crowds lined the river banks. A shout went up when smoke was discernible in the distance. On Dam 35 the judges grew prematurely alert, fingered their watches. Up the river, belching like twin-snouted dragons, sloshing along at an uproarious nine-knots-per-hour came the doughty Sternwheelers Tom Greene and Betsy Ann at the grim finish of a 21-mile race upstream from Cincinnati. Long before they could see which was ahead the crowd could hear the roar of the laboring engines. Children cringed, fearing an explosion. Old rivermen felt young again at the familiar sound...
...Alert correspondents soon learned the basic facts: the popular peasant government of energetic Prime Minister Juliu Maniu had successfully suppressed an attempted coup d'etat; 200 persons, most of them artillery officers, had been arrested; suspected regiments were confined to their barracks; strict censorship of the press, abolished by the Maniu government eight months ago, was instantly revived...
...Japanese War Office solemnly declared last fortnight that a "state of war" existed in the empire. A general, instant mobilization of war industries was ordered. General staffs assembled, industrial leaders sat alert at their desks, all factories were ordered to produce "war materials." Martial as the mobilization sounded, it was in reality no more than what occurs annually on Defense Day in the U. S., when for a few minutes railway presidents and corporation heads exchange potent telegrams with the War Department at Washington. But Japan's Defense Day served to remind U. S. citizens in Hawaii, last week...
Some weeks ago alert Prime Minister Benito Mussolini ferreted out the incident. Remembering the "consular agreement" which provides that Italy may settle the estate of any Italian citizen who dies while living temporarily in the U. S. and vice versa, Signor Mussolini instructed Consul Emanuele Grazzi at New York to file claim for the Comincio savings...
Elevated trains stopped to watch. An advertising airplane roared and blinked overhead. A smart police cordon idled around in the outfield like alert mannikins on a playing board of green baize. But in the bottom of the cone of white light at the centre of it all, Fighters Schmeling and Uzcudun did much more butting, grasping and shoving than sparring, smacking, socking...