Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line, too, had taken on a new lease of life. At both ends, Hageman and Nazro played an alert game which came to a climax in the two passes they received from Wells at the beginning of the last quarter on the march to the goal-line...
...running in the red. Reports that Lord Essendon's Furness, Withy or Cunard were dickering for it have popped up almost monthly. Though the election of Lord Essendon as White Star's chairman involved no deal, shipping men believed a merger was in the books. Last year alert Lord Essendon persuaded his stockholders to authorize an additional 2,000,000 shares of stock "to take advantage of any favorable opportunities which might present themselves for still further expanding business." In the reorganization of Royal Mail, effected last August, Lord Essendon played a lead part. One-half of Royal...
Delano & Aldrich's little houses are sold unfurnished. But alert to the advertising value, McMillen, Inc., interior decorators, will join forces with the firm of architects in an exhibition at Manhattan's Art Center...
...Tokyo railway station as Mr. Hsieh's train coasted in, 13 masters of Japanese court ceremonies stood like statues behind alert, businesslike Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida, representing the State, and rheumy-eyed old Minister of the Imperial Household Kitokuro Ichiki representing the ''Son of Heaven." In his compartment on the train Manchuria's big sneeze took a last pinch of snuff, wiped his nose and stepped splendidly forth upon the platform, followed by his suite of 15 Manchukuo undersecretaries all in brand new clothes paid for by Japan...
...ambulances arrived, Photographer William Eckenberg of the New York Times was scuttling back to his office with what he knew was a picture editor's dream. One of his plates showed the wounded gunman seated on the pavement, the girl clasping his head to her shoulder, the alert hands of policemen and detectives haloing the couple's heads. Police dragged the pair apart before other photographers penetrated the crowd...