Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evans "dishonest?" Did Mr. Wrigley deserve a Christian eulogy? Last week these questions interested The Christian Century, best written and most alert Protestant magazine in the U. S. Far from accusing Mr. Wrigley of breaking commandments, The Christian Century hastened to say that "We know nothing particularly damaging about Mr. Wrigley, if he is to be judged in the perspective of contemporary civilization." Nevertheless it took the occasion to point a stern moral...
Realism is the true reporter's touchstone. Cub newspapermen everywhere may with profit study the candor and simplicity with which this artist, alert and at all times objectively interested, sets down such minutiae as the differences in the cigar-smoking of Calvin Coolidge (knife and holder) and Herbert Hoover (fingernails and teeth), or the lineaments of Toscanini's left hand...
Sixteen years ago a young bride & groom, students at New York University, were hunting for a place to live in upper Manhattan. The landlady at one rooming-house tried to interest them by saying that she never took in Jews. She said the wrong thing. The alert, bright-eyed little groom was of pure Hebrew stock, born in Russia, educated in Palestine. His bride, also Jewish, said as they walked away: "If we ever have a son let us call him Yehudi [which in Hebrew means "a Jew"], and let him stand or fall on his name...
...yesterday the rumors began, and with the rumors much verifiable fact. It has long been more than a suspicion among alert Dartmouth men that a large proportion of the disorderly occurrences that have caused the fair name of Dartmouth to look less fair to estimable matrons in authority at Smith, Wellesley. Vassar, Radcliffe, etc, have been largely due to the conduct of various visitors from Yale, Harvard, Williams and Princeton, specifically, who regard an occasion like Carnival less as an occasion than as an opportunity. And they make the most...
Union Depot (Warner). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is an alert hobo who, after stealing a hat and coat from a men's washroom, reconnoitres in the station until he has a good suit of clothes, a roll of bills and a girl. His tramp companion picks up a parcel check which Fairbanks cashes for a violin case full of counterfeit money. Detectives looking for the counterfeiter find Fairbanks, when he is helping his girl to rid herself of a perverse admirer who wears dark glasses and a crippled foot. Eventually Fairbanks clears himself, but not until the counterfeiter, trying to retrieve...