Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of all his other troubles, unhappy Herbert Hoover's White House offices caught fire four Christmases ago. President Roosevelt had better luck last week when a blaze in the wastepaper storage room of the Executive Offices was promptly discovered and extinguished by an alert guard...
...year 1933 was the fourth in the greatest industrial crisis in history. Standing between an old world that was forever dead and a new world that was not fully born, whom would the discerning and alert U. S. citizen pick as Man of the Year? Notably barren of candidates was the British Commonwealth. Pious Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's London Economic Conference was a notorious fiasco. In rapid succession, France dealt and discarded three Cabinets in twelve months, produced no leader sufficiently bold or capable to rescue her from the climbing quicksands of insolvency. In Russia Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...selection narrowed down, it became plain to the alert U. S. observer that he must choose his Man of the Year from within his Government. Who? No member of the Cabinet, with the debatable ex- ception of busy Secretary of the Interior Ickes, had stood out head and shoulders above his fellows. No Senator, no Representative had glittered individually at the Capitol. In the White House sat Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was Man of the Year in 1932, when the New Deal was new. More popular than the day he won the Presidency, he had lived up to the brightest...
Because Josef Stalin had never deigned to receive the Ambassador of a capitalist power, Moscow waited curiously to see whether he would shake hands with President Roosevelt's alert and smiling Ambassador William Christian Bullitt. As the train carrying Mr. Bullitt and nine-year-old daughter Anne rolled from Poland into Russia this week he was met at the frontier by undersecretaries of the Soviet Foreign Office who pointed out that so much honor had never been done by the Soviet Government to a foreign diplomat before. Banqueted on the spot in the frontier railway station, Guest Bullitt...
...mark on all consciously "proletarian" writing. Curbstone oratory, more effective in the open air than in the echoing covers of a book, is drawing bigger crowds than once it did, and publishers, their anxious fingers on the public pulse, are beginning to prescribe this form of mild dynamite. Though alert Publisher Farrar finds Upsurge "impossible to describe," he admits that this manifesto-poem is "frankly a message...