Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Possible. Byrnes's two chief helpers are Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, a handsome, alert careerist who acts as his Russian adviser-translator, and Benjamin V. ("Ben") Cohen, once mu:h the better half of F.D.R.'s (Thomas G.) Corcoran & Cohen team. Cohen, an idealist, is classified in what Washington calls the N.C.L.-non-Communist left. Byrnes likes to recall that he was an idealist once, himself. "In 1918 I was a follower of Woodrow Wilson. I gloried in his idealism and in the magnificent effort he made to build the peace upon the Covenant of the League...
Hugh MacLennan, a top Canadian novelist (Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes), is an alert, perceptive native of Cape Breton, N.S. who has been around quite a lot. After sampling life in England (as a Rhodes scholar), and in the U.S. (as a graduate student at Princeton for three years), he decided that Canada was the place to live after all. In MacLean's Magazine this week 39-year-old Novelist MacLennan gives some reasons why the U.S. is not his choice...
...large, youngish (37) man who looks something like a more alert Primo Carnera, he likes to wrestle playfully with friends and pull out their neckties. He became a rabid planner. Last winter, with the general exodus of planners from the Truman Administration, Nathan also left and organized the Robert R. Nathan Associates...
What is left of the article, after the south has been disposed of, might well be informative reading to alert Americans. While admiring American skyscrapers, washing machines and personal vitality, Ehrenburg is vexed by the lack of tradition, midwestern Babbittism and political naivete of the people. Ehrenburg is offended by the adolescent anties of Lions' Club cheerfests, by the arbitrary morality of the film industry, by the provincial view of culture and the arts, which, he fears, are secondary in the American mind to drug stores and efficient plumbing. These views are not original; Kipling and Dickens and expatriates...
...smooth-working, alert Holy Cross basketbll quintet had entirely too many guns for the Varsity quintet last night, when the Crusaders handed Coach Bill Barclay's forces their first defeat of the season, 61 to 40, before 6,500 spectators at the Boston Garden...