Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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City officials could not make out a good case against small Dr. Williams' vigor. At 71 her blue eyes are alert as ever. She has just returned from her first long vacation in 39 years...
...Correspondent Duranty leaves his Moscow job about April 1, to rove for the Times wherever he chooses for as long as he chooses. Fourteen years of alert, thoroughgoing work in Russia have made him the Times' most valuable foreign correspondent, but hard Muscovite winters and office routine have frayed his nerves, pained his footless leg. His successor will be able Harold Norman Dennv, longtime TIME...
...referee is moving rapidly toward them. The victor, himself half punch-drunk, is swaying crazily, arms raised above his head. There is an excellent sincerity about this lithograph that is quite commendable. The limp body of the vanquished; the tense, triumphant face of the victor; and the referee's alert attitude have been well caught. But it must also be admitted that the body of the victor is not too carefully drawn. The large muscle in the right armpit is unfortunately exaggerated, and both deltoids have not been given the treatment they deserve on a well-muscled body. The referee...
Meanwhile downstairs dog-lovers had finished their plodding up & down between the solid rows of wire-fronted boxes where lay most of the 2,455 dogs which had not made the final grade. Two days earlier the dogs had been alert and slick, primed to the pink by kennelmen looking to reputation and profits through wins in the No. 1 U. S. dog show. Now dogs and handlers lolled together in the cramped boxes, panting in unison. But there was still enough spirit left in the terriers and high-strung German Shepherds to keep the basement a yapping bedlam...
...French railway wreck after the War. In 1922 the Times made him its official Moscow correspondent. Great & good friend of the late Journalist William Bolitho, and of Quipnunc Alexander Woollcott (who describes Duranty as having "a faint air of skullduggery about him"), Walter Duranty, 49, is small, baldish, quietly alert, enthusiastic, quizzical, brimming with unprinted anecdotes. He lives in Moscow with his French wife, infant offspring...