Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continuous and adept has been the publicity of Czechoslovakia's two great men that few foreigners realize there is a third. Everyone has heard just praise of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Everyone is conscious of Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes. But only the most alert can name the "Mystery Man" who has been Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia during the past six years. Beholding him one first notes his extraordinary pallor, then the round bald head, large mouth, short wide nose, piercing eyes, and dark overhanging brows. Such is Antonin Svehla...
...Alert observers who remember all the way back to Jan. 6, 1929, when the King seized his new dictatorial powers, slyly recalled last week that "Alexander the Absolute" was not long since known as "the king who looks like a dentist...
...Ever since the Nationalist Armies drove from China proper that rapacious, blood-thirsty War Lord Chang Tsung-chang (TIME, Sept. 24), many an alert occidental has queried: "What's become of Chang...
Last week alert correspondents in Rome announced another Council called by another Pius for the year 1930. What cosmic questions would it answer? Only one thing was certain: questions and answers would be as different as are Pius IX and Pius...
...reposeful family La Follette. The second was a composite of qualities. The final version was the militant figure of the Senate chamber. It was the intimacy of the Russian journey which allowed the sculptor to rely so much on memory. But once his memory failed. The Senator's alert, responsive hands were elusive. Sculptor Davidson was baffled. Then to the Paris studio came the Senator's brilliant younger son, Philip La Follette, lecturer on law at the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Oct. 22). It is in this son rather than in his older brother, "Young Bob," the present Senator, that...