Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before grey-lipped Neville Chamberlain took a little key from his watch chain and opened the battered red leather Budget box to announce to the House of Commons last month a rise in the tax on tea and another threepence to the pound of income tax, somebody must have peeked (TIME, May 4). In a last-minute rush British companies were swamped with orders for insurance against a rise in the income tax. Lloyd's alone lost over $500,000. The only people who see Britain's Budget before it is announced in Commons are high Treasury officials...
...Tenor Mario Chamlee, who sang under the old-time Metropolitan regime.' Surprise came at the performance when Basso Louis D'Angelo, long confined to minor roles, emerged as a blustering comic. D'Angelo was the ubiquitous, bewhiskered marriage broker, with the flowered vest, the gaudy watch chain, the inseparable red umbrella. The stammering, half-witted Wenzel was Tenor George Rasely, a native of St. Louis, with a radio reputation and many a church job behind him. He had scarcely made an appearance, had scarcely stuttered a line before the audience accepted him, started to laugh its approval...
Equipped with a stop-watch he appeared at the Museum just before midnight. Unlocking the large front door, he entered the deserted building, glanced at the watch, and strode up the stairs. Reaching the top floor he again noted the time, remained motionless for precisely three minutes, and then walked to the head of another staricase. Here he again consulted the stop-watch, and paused for three minutes before descending to the ground floor. Once more he glanced at his watch, left the building, and disappeared in the night...
Thence to lunch at Eliot House. How mighty pretty is the court! And all the afternoon to row in the basin; but the blasted shell threw me. And I much vexed to lose my socks and almost my pants. And a big crowd to stop by and watch me save myself. But I, very serious, not to notice them and to pull up the shell, but bless my soul, to fall in again; and there be much laughter. Soon I to make merry too; but much vexed at my troubles; and rowed not to tell Blake...
...feet above at field-centre. When the pilot has put his plane squarely on the junction of these two beams, he turns the control over to the robot which brings the plane down the invisible slope to a landing. All the human pilot does is to handle the throttle, watch the instruments, apply the brakes when the wheels touch...