Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Garbed in his habitual gabardine slacks and yellow turtle-neck sweater, the stage and screen star was the true feminine counterpart of the Harvardian's idea of dressing for comfort. Despite constant interruptions from the horde of autograph-seekers and hangers-on around her dressing-room, she shot back alert replies, seemed to enjoy her only exclusive interview during her brief Hub visit...
...foreign capital seeking safety in the U. S., broadly hinted that something might have to be done to keep what he called this "hot" money from threatening the U. S. financial structure (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week something was done. With Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles alert at his side, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau read a 93-word statement at a press conference in Washington...
...then lived right across the street. Their courtesy was not returned. Last year at a Lincoln Day Republican rally in Chicago, ambitious President Frank, who has been sporadically mentioned as Presidential timber, made his first big blunder by using the phrase "our party." Those words shivered all through politically alert Wisconsin. When Phil La Follette got back the Governorship last year, Mr. & Mrs. Frank were not invited to stand in the receiving line at the inaugural ball. Mr. & Mrs. La Follette stayed away from Wisconsin's last commencement...
...made a specialty of horror pictures. Last spring when benign old "Uncle Carl," who had generously padded his staff with relatives, sold the company he had founded, Banker John Cheever Cowdin and his associates, who bought it, promised profound changes. As an example of what to expect from an alert group of hard-boiled banker-showmen, Three Smart Girls should interest exhibitors. Universal's most ballyhooed 1936 release is the daintiest, quaintest, most hygienic little musicomedy of the season, written, directed and performed with such evident sincerity that it may well be one of the box-office surprises...
Last week Washington's alert Science Service, browsing among the patent files, discovered that in his long search for a Unified Field Theory the great mathematician had not forgotten the uses of photoelectric cells. Patent No. 2,058,562, it appeared, had been issued to Dr. Albert Einstein and Gustav Bucky. Manhattan X-ray researcher, for an automatic device to prevent unskilled photographers from under-or over-exposing their plates.* A photoelectric cell attached to the camera measures the quantity of illumination available, adjusts a screen of varying transparency so that the proper amount of light is admitted...