Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosika Schwimmer, 54, beetle-browned Hungarian Jewess, indefatigable publicist, onetime Hungarian Minister to Switzerland, has been trying for some time to become a U. S. citizen. Because she, in 1915, helped persuade Henry Ford to outfit and command his famed "Peace Ship," she was subjected to specially alert questioning by a Chicago naturalization board last summer (TIME, July 11). When she told the board she was an atheist and that she would not personally bear arms for the U.S. because " I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States," the board refused her citizenship. Last...
...University of Virigina fidgeted at the convocation, last week, of the institution's 104th academic year. Thomas Jefferson founded the school; Edgar Allen Poe roistered there. Roistering long ago yielded to sly escapades in Charlottesville and pranks along the countryside. Scholarship persists, and so lively and alert that businessmen like to address the students...
Last week out of these headquarters issued stacks and stacks of envelopes addressed to alert women Democrats all over the U. S. When each woman Democrat opened her envelope, she learned that what the Democratic Party needs is slogans, mottoes, jingles, limericks, rhymes. They had decided that the way to get slogans, mottoes, jingles, limericks, rhymes, is to have a contest, give prizes. They had decided that the most economical way to raise money for prizes is to charge a fee for entering the contest. They had decided that $100 is fair for first prize in a slogan, motto, jingle...
...French group was Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, looking tired and bored, more shaggy than ever, his half-closed eyes often gazing at the ceiling. M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, restless, smiling, alert, was in startling contrast to Louis Loucheur, heavy, stolid, inscrutable. Everybody noted, regretted, the absence of jovial, concise, dapper Henry de Jouvenel, recently resigned...
Advice, often unwelcome, is sometimes valuable. Thus, alert newsreaders were last week glad to share the admonitions offered to widow, daughters, grandchildren, in the will of Elbert H. Gary, late U. S. Steel Corp. head...