Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Journalists covering the King were alert to note any departure from the pattern of his visits as Prince of Wales. These were distinguished by a boyish informality in fraternizing with and calling upon members of the toiling masses unexpectedly and at random. The ever-young Prince of Wales visibly lacked manly interest in actual proposals and specific complaints drafted by leaders of the masses-such as shop councils and aldermanic bodies of depression-stricken towns. These hoped last week that the now 42-year-old King would give them repeated and serious audience on his tour and they were disappointed...
...Over-alert social critics are apt to notice leftist leanings in the play, such as a Communist's being sent to death by mob hysteria, and a policeman's bullying the poor. These suggestions, if not completely illusory, are at best irrelevant and insignificant...
...policies. He may take as much of a part as he wishes in the affairs of the Union and all its books and all its operations are open to him--even displayed to him without asking--in the pages of his daily newspaper. He is an awakened and alert consumer and he knows what he wants and gets it. Whether the people of this country would ever defend their own rights by similar tactics is a question. Meanwhile the more that is heard about co-operatives the better. Marquis Childs has done a splendidly thorough job of telling us about...
...drizzly dawn of the morning after Election, weary brokers in a dozen Manhattan brokerage offices snapped off their radios, wastebasketed their sunflower buttons and stalked out for breakfast. They had opened their offices early in the hope that some alert customers, on the basis of election returns, would want to buy or sell on the London Stock Exchange when that market opened at 5 a.m. E. S. T. Their hope for London orders proved almost as barren as their hope for a Landon victory...
...some time to come, however, the G.O.P. must resign itself to the part of a minority group--alert, critical, compactly-organized, with a well-defined philosophy. So shattering was the Roosevelt triumph, so sweeping the New Deal victory in Congress that the appellation of "minority party" is hardly more than a courtesy title at the present time. It cannot be over-emphasized that such under-representation of so large a minority is extremely unhealthy. One need not turn to Europe for illustration; the excesses of the G.O.P. after the Civil War, the worst mistakes of the present administration, frame...