Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama, on the Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt statue will stand silent overlooking the spot where the last dikes were blasted to join ocean with ocean, is near the southern (Pacific) end of the strip of territory which alert President Roosevelt bought for $10,000,000* from the infant Republic of Panama in 1903 (Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty) the instant the Panamen revolted from Colombia, which had warily been refusing President Roosevelt's overtures. "Oh, Mr. President," cried Attorney General Philander Chase Knox, "do not let so great...
Irate, he broadly hinted that the Department acted "unconstitutionally" when it negotiated the modus vivendi (TIME, March 7) on the basis of which the U. S. has already sent to Turkey that alert and statesmanly "career diplomat," Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. Since the appointments of Ambassadors Grew and Moukhtar Bey have been an accomplished fact for months, some observers thought it churlish of Mr. Gerard to wait until the Turkish Ambassador was actually en route, last week, before delivering himself as follows: "The Senate will soon have an opportunity to express itself upon the so-called modus vivendi...
...little vitality for a Troubadour song, for d'Hardelet's "Lesson of the Fan," for "Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair, and the flaming shawl was strangely dull. True there was a hint of the old gestures, the old fire, but the Palace audience could not remember, saved their...
Personally, I except Yale will win, but Harvard has a chance, a narrow, fighting chance. Yale's offensive strength is directed mainly through its opponent's tackles and guards. An alert Crimson line can stop this style of play to a great extent. Yale's plays are not tricky. They are sound fundamental plays built upon power and team work. Now it is interesting to note that, with the excepting of Purdue, which not met Harvard before Coach Horween's team has struck its stride, no team has raised havoc with Harvard's forward wall through the medium of straight...
...SERMONS-Margot Asquith- Doran ($2.50). Her alert countenance, her boundless arrogance, her crude curious argot, her inquisitive mind with its eagerness to disclose whatever trifles it may contain, have made the Countess of Oxford and Asquith famous. Her autobiography, published in 1922, was a mansion of closets, each inhabited by a dusty skeleton. The enormity of its sale was caused by a universal appetite for prying gossip; its result was an eagerness among publishers to coax Author Asquith toward further indiscretions of the printed word. Her present volume is full of good sense: "Most men and women Eat, Drink...