Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Infrequently of late has Spain, which used to dispatch musicians to the U. S. in a steady stream, sent figures worthy to rank with Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Dancer Argentina, Pianist José Iturbi. As though to atone for this neglect, alert little Pianist Iturbi, who plans to become a U. S. citizen, has lately carved a niche for himself as an orchestral conductor as well. His quiet debut occurred last May in Mexico City, speedily became a triumph. Emboldened by the success of his first piano recitals in Mexico, Iturbi organized an orchestra of 75 "professors," inserted a small advertisement...
Much of the difficulty which the railroads ascribe to automotive and potential air and pipe line competition should and could have been relieved by an alert and aggressive railroad policy.-Report of the National Transportation Committee headed by the late Calvin Coolidge (TIME...
Last week Boston & Maine Railroad showed alert aggressiveness. It opened an airline between Boston, Portland and Bangor. Me. Other railroads have collaborated with airlines (e. g. Pennsylvania and Santa Fe with T. A. T.. New York Central with American Airways), but Boston & Maine is the first to establish air service of its own. The road contracted with an outside company newly formed by Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart Putnam who were executives in defunct Ludington Lines (New York-Philadelphia-Washington), to operate the airline. The railroad pockets all revenue, pays the operators a flat sum per mile...
...with complete success into "Diamond Lil" (see cut}. ''Of course I have ideas, but I don't tell them" is Mrs. Trefusis' drawling way of expressing delight that her Mae West party galvanized Paris stylists into swift, devastating action. After the openings last week alert buyers, repeating the new in cantation "Edwardian or earlier," ruffled through their style notebooks to report : ¶ Waistlines are definitely stabilized at the level of the "natural waist" which must and will be emphasized by corsets. Stylists and corsetmen agree that there will be no wasp-waist pinching but high...
Perfectly composed, the troop of assassins sat in court, each with his head completely covered by a basketwork hood, as is the Japanese rule when capital crime is involved. Alert and proud of his patriotism, Sub-Lieutenant Seishi Koga rose to testify: "We thought that a war with America was needed to rehabilitate the Japanese national spirit. We planned to blow up Premier Inukai and Mr. Chaplin together. It was only when some of us were arrested and we had to hurry our preparations to kill Premier Inukai that we gave up our plan to kill the American...