Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alert readers of Duranty's articles have noted in them an increasing tone of personal authority. From "the writer ventures to say" Journalist Duranty soon emerges to "I am convinced," "I am prepared to stake my reputation on the fact...
...last week no other peanut vendor had been alert or bold enough to poach the territory of "Steve" Vasilakos,. who gratefully donated one day's receipts ($9.45) to the President's Warm Springs Fund...
...Tokyo U. S. recognition of U. S. S. R. was interpreted almost as an unfriendly act, the Japanese Press being alert to see and exploit its economic potentialities in case of hostilities. After one flying visit to Moscow William Christian Bullitt, President Roosevelt's new Ambassador, returned to the U. S. last month under the definite impression that a Russo-Japanese war was in the making. He felt it his duty to warn U. S. businessmen not to lend Russia too much money because of the danger that she may find herself unable simultaneously to fight and pay interest...
Into Cuba's new Cabinet beaming President Mendieta drafted as Secretary of the Treasury a onetime lawyer for the National City Bank, Senor Joaquin Martinez Saenz. From Havana the Republican New York Herald Tribune's alert Tom Pettey cabled...
...Vallee's low register quavers. Now almost as popular as Vallee in the U. S. and Eng land, Crosby is much more popular else where, partly because his singing has ceased to be affected, partly because he is the only U. S. crooner sufficiently present able and mentally alert to be a successful cinemactor. He plays golf in the 703, wants to write short stories, is incorporated under his real name, Harry Lillis Crosby. His acting shoes contain one and a half-inch "lifts." His great-great-grandfather was one of John Jacob Astors sea captains. His wife, onetime...