Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...else. Presently shop-keepers are whispering the details to their customers. One depositor warns another: the amount of the peculations jumps from $100,000 to $500,000, then to $5,000,000. An angry, despairing mob storms the doors of the First National Bank. The assistant cashier performs the alert trick that saves the bank, places the blame for the robbery where it belongs...
...cities that house their art with their government. Denverites waiting for an audience with alert Mayor George D. Begole may go up to the fourth floor and contemplate pictures by Rubens. Degas, Rousseau, Ryder and Boardman Robinson, director of the Boardmoor Art Academy at Colorado Springs. In the Art Museum's 14 galleries they may look at a bronze statue by Maillol, at Japanese and Chinese art, at collections of medals, ceramics, furniture...
...Maugham. Ziegfeld was dressed as a tramp. He rushed home, changed to full dress, sprayed himself with perfume. Actress Burke liked the perfume. He courted her quietly, with Grant's Tomb their usual rendezvous. On the day that Lefty Louis, one of the murderers of Herman Rosenthal, was executed, alert newsmen discovered that Showman Ziegfeld had married Actress Burke in Hoboken. They shared the front page with Lefty Louis...
...Alert to the emergency General Glassford bobbed up on a bandstand near the Capitol's main steps. Commander Waters was arrested, clapped into the Capitol. Bellowed General Glassford to the rampant B. E. F.: "I don't want any trouble, but we'll have it if you don't get back. I told the Vice President I'd keep the plaza clear. When I say I'll do a thing...
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Fox). Somewhat baffled by the problem of making the kind of pictures which cinemaddicts prefer, most producers do not attempt to specialize. Alert cinemaddicts realize, however, that there are a few exceptions to this rule. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer runs to lavish casts. Universal last year was addicted to monsters. Encouraged five years ago by the vast success of Seventh Heaven to believe that simple, sentimental romances of the type which Mary Pickford played in 15 years ago are not yet obsolete, Fox has diligently furnished them. Usually Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are hero & heroine. Their...