Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the Navy Department reprimanded him for calling Prime Minister Mussolini a hit-&-run driver (TiME, Feb. 9, et seq.), Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U. S. M. C., has been on the alert for international slights. Last week he thought he had found one. He thought he had caught Dantes Bellegarde, the Haitian Minister in Washington, saying that the Haitian fort for capturing which he (Butler) won the Congressional Medal of Honor, was a fictitious fort. Wrathfully General Butler appealed to the Navy Department to have this ugly blot wiped from his record...
...Ripley began pleasantly. Then, before the driver had time to reach the two revolvers in his pockets, or the tear gas gun in his vest, or the two other revolvers concealed in the car doors, or the one under the cowl, or the machine gun in the rumble seat, alert Policeman Ripley covered him with the weapon he had hidden beneath his rain-cape. The officer marched his prisoner, hands in the air, through the rain to the police station. Word soon flashed throughout the East that James Nannery, ruthless young desperado wanted dead or alive in New York...
...Snowden had helped the Chancellor to write down his blue sheets of bad news before their cheery hearth in Surrey (see cut). Last week, alert as a mother robin, she perched in the gallery, saw her Philip pop a private word in the Prime Minister's ear, pick up a glass of water,* tilt it against his thin lips, set it down, and begin to speak...
...Alert Dr. Frank Horace Vizetelly, famed lexicographer, had remarks to make about a word used in a radioration recently by Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania. The word was "radiorator." Said Dr. Vizetelly: "The lady probably pronounced it radiorator but . . . my feeling is that the general public would pronounce it radiorator? which would be a horrible thing...
...alert United Press interviewed business leaders who attended the 1929 White House conferences, discovered an agreement among them that Industry, by & large, had lived up to its wage pledge. Pierre Samuel Du Pont (I. E. du Pont de Nemours & Co.), Walter Sherman Gifford (American Telephone & Telegraph). Jesse Isidor Straus (R. H. Macy & Co.) declared their companies had not reduced their wage scales since 1929. Walter Clark Teagle said his Standard Oil of New Jer sey had found it necessary to cut workers' weekly earnings by part-time employment but that the base pay rate had been maintained. Distinctly...