Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frau von Hindenburg's babe was born day after the Christmas party at her father-in-law's, shortly before TIME, Jan. 2, went to press. Alert editing made it possible to include the Milestone in the news story...
Scanning the dreary horizon of 1932 as it recedes into history, upon whom would the discerning eye of an alert U. S. citizen fix as Man of the Year...
...they toured Russia. Last week critical Corliss told a meeting of 500 Manhattan radicals to "Buy Soviet 10% bonds! They are the safest bonds on the market today. . . . The once stupid Russian peasant louts are now replaced by as intelligent a people as I have ever met. They are alert to world events, politics, modern thought. True, they have a food crisis and many of them haven't shoes but their devotion is lifting them up to a different plane." Unlike dogmatic Russian Communists who are positive that there is no future life, Son Corliss has recently set down...
...when he published The Engineers & The Price System Economist Stuart Chase, Veblen's friend has been writing similarly since. But last summer a tall, middle-aged man named Howard Scott with a wide-brimmed hat and a prodigiously rapid, sharp, agile tongue, was being received and handed around by alert tycoons, notably Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip. From one drawing room and dinner to another he moved everywhere causing gasps of amazement, scowls of worry, questions of deep and inquiring respect...
Chief bugaboo of Adman Collins' life is dullness. "When I pick up a newspaper or look at a magazine." he says, "I find 95% of the copy is deadly serious, in fact downright dreary." Most advertising he finds even worse. Though alert copywriters should pounce merrily on "humor . . . and the human element in situations and merchandise," he warns that they must not be funny more than 5% of the time. He admits: "I do not think there is anything funny about a Baldwin locomotive." Chief tenet of Adman Collins' advertising creed is honesty. He deplores the blasts...