Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready," announced New York's Governor Lehman as the State Legislature settled down to enact a liquor-control law. Tammany Hall, caught by an alert press trying to mix beer and politics, fell in behind the Lehman control plan...
...lustily, sang the Royal Anthem. Police arrested four Socialists for hissing, five Flemings for leafleting. Born a German, the able Queen is considered pro-French by rabid sectionalists who want "Flanders for the Flemings!" Whether she really enjoyed it or not, Queen Elisabeth sat through a long Flemish opera, alert, gracious, regal...
...that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children, Pound has been given a wide berth by U. S. publishers and U. S. critics, but his European reputation is nothing to sneeze at. In bringing out the first U. S. edition of Pound's magnum opus alert Publisher Farrar shows that he has heard a thing or two. On the jacket of A Draft of XXX Cantos he quotes...
...swings up & down. If the plane is too high for its proper glide the needle swings up; if the plane is too low, down goes the needle. Pilot Kinney's job was to keep it centred, neatly bisecting the runway needle. Also he had to keep his ears alert for a shrill "Be-e-e-ep!" in his earphones. That meant: "You are now 1,000 ft. from the field boundary. Throttle down." On he went, eyeing his needles, until he heard another "Be-e-e-ep!", lower pitched, meaning: "Edge of the field! Cut the motor!" By this...
...rewarded with a startling action picture of Mayor Cermak a few seconds after he had been wounded. His picture of the bleeding Mayor (see cut) was also distributed through Acme because Acme carried the photograph in its plane to Manhattan. The picture approaches in sensational spontaneity the picture that alert William Warneke made for the oldtime Evening World of New York's Mayor Gaynor within a few seconds of his being shot in the neck aboard a steamer bound for Europe...