Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might be a reductio ad absurdum of both subject and method. But Authoress Bentley's intentions and accomplishment are honorably serious. Though she sets the stage with such reverent care that the reader expects a notable if not tycoonish hero, the curtain has not been up long before alert spectators realize that the spectacle will be unspectacular. Authoress Bentley succeeds, however, in transfiguring her average man into a man-sized hero. Says she: "Why . . . should not one of the crowd, one of those who maintain, those who transmit, have a standard biography written for him with as much justification...
Some customers are always trying to cheat the insurance companies, complained delegates to the American Life Convention in Chicago last week. Some cheat by committing suicide, some by hiding disabilities from which they soon die. Insurance company doctors by keeping alert may detect many a disease-hiding applicant. As for suicides, which have steadily increased throughout the world, Frederick Ludwig Hoffman who has been studying the statistics for Prudential Insurance Co. last week suggested more preventive organizations like the National Save-a-Life League and Vienna's Advisory Centre for Those Weary of Life (TIME, Dec. 7, 1931; June...
...usually questions of broad social significance. Public-minded, unselfish, a disciple of Liberals Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter has turned down a seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court and partnerships in firms worth $200,000 a year. Now 50, a man with a perpetually crisp, alert expression, and a charming wife, he will take a leave of absence next year...
...glanced hastily backward at Pilot Frederick T. Hawes seated in the rear cockpit just forward of the pusher-type motor. Pilot Hawes's eyes were half closed, his tongue protruded. He was being strangled by his scarf which was being wound around the hub of the propeller. Alert Gliderman Levin connected the dual controls in the front cockpit, grasped the joystick, kicked the rudder pedals, leveled and landed the airplane. Safe on the ground he looked again to Pilot Hawes, found him unconscious. Unlike Dancer Isadora Duncan, who died when her scarf caught in a wheel of her automobile...
...lately been enriched by the appearance of a new weekly, Polity, similar to the Forum in format, reminiscent of the Nation in editorial policy, and emanating from Chicago. At present, in its seventh issue, Polity can boast of no more than sixteen pages, but it is distinguished by an alert point of view and a tincture of intelligent cynicism which should go far toward tempting success...