Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politically, the Socialist Club again took the spotlight when Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr. '32 managed to get himself arrested in the Square for distributing pamphlets which welcomed England's Premier MacDonald. The alert Cambridge police jailed him on Chapter 27 of the General Ordinances, it was learned afterward. Cohen was eventually fined $10, but his literature was restored after pleas that it was not radical but only explanatory...
Bombs will "fall" on Cambridge this Wednesday and Thursday according to the Civil Defense experts operating out of Natick Headquarters. But "Operation Alert 1955" will not disturb Reunion and Commencement festivities, the authorities have decided, "because Harvard activities are not necessarily normal...
...Russians are alert to the danger...
...Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis, Emily Post, an alert 81, received the press for lunch to celebrate the ninth edition and 82nd printing of her long-distance bestseller, Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage. As reporters dawdled over cocktails, the arbiter of proper behavior cried: "I'm hungry. Where's the food?" She stoutly maintained, "Good manners have not declined," nonchalantly pontificated, "The essence of good manners consists in putting people at ease." Like its author, Etiquette has mellowed since it first went to press in 1922. A Post host of today, unlike those in earlier...
...phone in the Doctors' Club dining room of Texas Medical Center and got the flash: Beaumont was devastated. All he had known in advance was that the test would be within a week of an agreed date. He at once ordered the Baylor switchboard to send out the alert. But here came the first snag. The Houston Surgical Society was having a meeting in an inn near by, and the phone was busy. One doctor had to hoof it over to the inn to get the surgeons moving...