Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of the desultory debate, M. P.'s indebted to the women's vote and reluctant to sponsor openly the Government's thesis that British women in the Civil Service are already better paid than other British women, quietly sneaked out of the House. The alert leader of the Labor Opposition, Major Clement R. Attlee, did a little quick counting, called for a vote. The mighty British Conservative Government, possessor of a regular majority of 250, was beaten, 156-to-148. Literally, this meant that the Government must, over its own policy, proceed to give women civil...
...universally predicted that a man of conspicuous energy and brains would be chosen. Among the capital's more blatant newsorgans each has had its favorite candidate, the most arresting being the Daily Mail's choice of an Australian, famed Stanley Melbourne Bruce, kinetic, Conservative, air-minded and alert onetime Premier of the Commonwealth, today its High Commissioner in London and last week League of Nations Council President...
...formed their impression of Communism from the Hearst Press must have received a distinct shock when small, sandy-haired Comrade Browder, son of a Kansas schoolteacher and longtime certified public accountant, began to speak in the tone of a mild, ingratiating Midwestern college professor. As he went on, alert listeners realized that most of his sentences could have been lifted almost verbatim from the speeches of the nation's most famed and respectable public characters. Samples...
...bare Manhattan studio last week ten very serious young women worked like demons night & day, flinging themselves into the air, jumping frogwise, stomping, crouching, twisting their torsos. All were barefoot, wore scant jersey tops, long trailing skirts. On a chaise longue sat their director, an alert, thin, ashen-faced woman who stopped them abruptly when Anita's arm was too high or Bonnie's feet too far apart. The Martha Graham dancers were rehearsing for one of their periodic Manhattan recitals. Their leader had more in store. This week she was to start on a transcontinental tour...
...posed portraits, but the Press demanded that the appearance of the President of the U. S. on his 54th birthday be recorded. When the photographers seemed satisfied the President relaxed, took off his nose-glasses, dropped his head, rubbed his eyes strained by the dazzling flashes of magnesium bulbs. Alert, Harris & Ewing's cameraman snapped & flashed again. Result was a picture in which President Roosevelt appeared to be a tired and discouraged man, with head down, hand to face...