Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris,* were mildly surprised one evening last week to see the short, white-mustached old Americain who had been stopping at the hotel with his sick wife for several weeks, making his way furtively out of the house through the dim-lit service entrance. With him was his alert, dark-haired son, who had just arrived from the U. S. The son carried a small handbag. In the street they hailed a taxi, vanished into the night...
...Roosevelt campaign was by no means being carried along by the nominee alone. Already on the stump or itching to take it was an assorted chorus of vociferous henchmen the like of which was nowhere to be seen on the G. 0. P. battlefront. That no Republican was alert enough to bunch these Democratic helpmates?by no means the cream of the party?and point with alarm to them as the ''men behind Roosevelt," was viewed as a reflection upon the intelligence of the Hoover managers...
...bets his friend (William Farnum) that he is competent to mold jungle into civilization with only bare hands and one toothbrush. The friend takes the bet; Fairbanks jumps overboard; his dog follows; Fairbanks throws back the toothbrush. Audiences chuckle as he staggers out of the surf with his alert, parody Boy Scout expression, ready for any emergency Scenarist Tom Geraghty may devise. Having landed June i, by June 24 he has made saws, jugs, hammocks, hatchet, carpenter's plane, outhouse with scroll-sawed star & crescent, pickaxe, baskets, architect's plans; has taught a parrot...
...London alert correspondents who know how Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon thinks, speaks and writes asserted with confidence that they recognized him as the author of an editorial in the London Times extenuating the Treaty of Changchun...
...several rich Japanese withdrew their deposits from National City's Osaka branch, mobs milled around its doors. branch officials received threatening letters and placards proclaimed: "Patriotic Japanese employes of this spying Ameri can bank must walk out in a body!" The new U. S. Ambassador to Japan is alert, athletic, slightly deaf Josef Clark Grew, kinsman of John Pierpont Morgan, whose last post was Turkey. Mr. Grew stood for no nonsense in Tokyo. Laconically he cabled to the State Department : "The recent affair of the Osaka branch of the National City Bank of New York which is subjected...