Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchestra of the crowded Madrid theatre which madly cheered Don Jose, sat Spain's reputed richest man, Count Romanones, quiet, alert, ready to jump with his millions to the side on which Victory should perch...
Churched in so simple a fashion, the pair had ostensibly become one flesh. Not until one alert newsgatherer noticed that no license had been used during the ceremony was it discovered that Mr. & Mrs. Clarke had taken the precaution of being married at the municipal building chapel the morning before the Bahai wedding. Subsequent investigation proved that the judicious civil ceremony was quite in keeping with the gentle faith of Bahai, one of whose principal tenets is tolerance of established custom...
...from being diffident, the Duke is making a splendid job of such varied tasks and duties as fall to his lot. He runs his place at Arundel in a manner which makes his invitations greatly sought after and is himself a genial, alert host and a sportsman. Furthermore, he is noted for the keen and intelligent interest he takes in his tenantry in all parts of the country. He is generally regarded as a normally intelligent young man with ample common sense and is liked and respected for his ideals by all acquaintances...
...Alert and sensational, the 60-year-old Graphic is edited by Alan John Bott. British pressmen can find a striking similarity between Editor Bott's journalistic policies and his Wartime activities. After having served in the Artillery and Royal Flying Corps in France and Mesopotamia, he entered the British espionage system. Captured by the Turks in 1918, he dramatically escaped across the Black Sea into Russia, whence he made his way through Bulgaria to Salonika. For his Turk-spying he was given the Military Cross with bar. Gleaning two bits of information where but one guarded bit grew before...
Artist Woolf looks a little older but just as alert as his self-portrait (see above). Born 50 years ago in Manhattan, he was named, by parents who loved literature, after the great Dr. Johnson. He went to the College of the City of New York (1899) and, like most Manhattanites who relish pencil and brush, studied at the National Academy of Design, The Art Students' League. In 1904 he married; he has two daughters. For a long time he did oil portraits, exhibiting widely, winning academic honors. But, says he, "I had to commercialize my art by pleasing aunts...