Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quake swept up the Plain of No Riches, along the farther side of the Suliman mountain wall. When it stopped, Quetta, Kalat, Mastung, Shikapur and dozens of villages were a plain of rubble. Alert Sir Alexander yelled to his household to stand in the doorways. The house tumbled but the doorways stood. Then Sir Alexander went to work...
This honorary officership in the army of the Church Militant was 65 years in coming to Father Quirk. Born in Ireland 91 years ago, he fought in the U. S. Civil War, became a priest in 1870, is supposed to have twice renounced his rights to an earldom. Alert old Father Quirk has ministered for half a century to three mountain parishes 15 miles apart. Devoted to his collie "Shep," his blackened pipe, his comfortable Congress gaiters and his crushed black hat, he refused until last year to accept an automobile from his flock, preferring to ride from parish...
...page, whose missing text appears only in the holograph edition, and the penny arcade reader may well purchase that--at $99 a copy--if he wants Cummings straight. No. 16, as it is, has quite a bounce to it, and would hardly be given the imprimatur of a really alert censor, its only quotable stanza being...
...cronies began selling stock, millions of dollars worth, which was to make everybody rich. It made Frank Parish rich enough to buy the old Presidential yacht Mayflower for $16,000. The pipe line crawled northward out of Texas, headed for the Kansas City territory controlled by goateed, alert Henry Doherty. What happened after that and why, was the subject of a four-week criminal trial concluded last week in Chicago's Federal Courts. There Frank Parish and an associate were on trial for using the mails to defraud in selling Missouri-Kansas stock before the company toppled into receivership...
...physical circumstances which in a world of fact would form the background for their action. He chronicles the adventures of Miss Hope Davis, teacher of kindergarten in Low Plains, Kansas, returning from Europe on the "Ile-de-France," a ship which, from all accounts, is manned in an alert and seamanly fashion. Yet Miss Davis, falling in love with a young man who, since he is travelling with his family, does not have a private cabin, flees with him on a rough night to the bow of the ship, and there, on the deck, surrenders. The "Ile-de-France" must...