Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Ohio politicians droned through the last General Assembly at Columbus, newspaper reporters, alert or phlegmatic, hung over the rail of the press gallery. After each session, readers were told of whatever interesting governmental action their duly elected representatives had taken. Somehow the journalists were completely unaware of an amendment to the election, code which was of more moment to themselves and their employers than any other part of the drowsy proceedings...
...asked the alert doorman. "What paper do you represent...
...called "unAmerican" of Mr. Hopkins. Also it was charged he had been at fault in graft that last year sent two councilmen to the penitentiary. Furthermore, he was dictatorial, unharmonious. Where the charges came from, councilmen said they did not know. A messenger had brought them from outside. Alert newsmen noted that the messenger was a Maschke minion, had left the Maschke office with a packet just before his arrival at City Hall...
Beyond the Italians were the Japanese, with onetime Prime Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki, perfectly alert and cold sober, despite his potions the night before of Scotch whiskey and Japanese saké. Of the latter beverage his excellency brought from Japan precisely 20 casks...
While terrified Düsseldorf continued in acutest suspense a rumor leaked out that the supershrewd detectives were also sending out "decoy victims" - pretty young women in suits of light, flexible armour with padded steel under their hats, alert guards in the offing...