Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven hundred strong they marched through the Capital City of Kabul to the Great Bazaar. There, by the generosity of alert, up-to-date King Amanullah of Afghanistan, they were assisted into pants, buttoned into shirts, tied with cravats and hustled into coats. All these garments, cut after modes observed by King Amanullah on his recent tour of Europe (TIME, Jan. 23 to June 4), had been made by Afghan needlemen from native approximations to suitings and shirtings. Remained only the titanic project of clipping, shaving...
...tribute to public life," says Mr. Kent, than whom no pundit is more alert and merciless in exposing public villains, "that governmental graft is bigger news than any other kind...
...They may be interested in aviation but they don't care a continental damn about prisons abroad," was last week the particular opinion which one U. S. citizen had about U. S. citizens. The one was alert, freckled B. Ogden Chisolm who was testily quitting the post of U. S. International Prison Commissioner, to which President Coolidge appointed...
There the thing might have stopped but for the alert New York Times, which reprinted Senator Gillett's unfinished sentence in an editorial and roundly flayed him for "vulgarity and stupidity ... execrable taste . . . political blunder . . . folly . . . impropriety . . . unchivalrous . . . offensive . . . underground propaganda...
...editor would do so who is a journalist before he is a partisan. Because, as a matter of fact- It seems indisputable that the underlying cause for this year's anti-baloney epidemic among politicians lies not in the politicians' honest hearts, but in the alert U. S. press, whose newsgatherers, observers, commentators and editors have spent many years trying to divest U. S. politics and politicos of the more obvious political shams and absurdities. Journalism, having sown well the seeds of satire, itself deserves credit for making "baloney" forbidden fruit...