Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without any collusion, saw in the story many a sly dig against the Church and its personalities. You see, once it gets into people's minds that you have no respect for anything, they see in all of your airy remarks something sinister or at least unfriendly. Watch your adjectives...
Article XVI of the League Covenant, officially in force last week, prohibits "all intercourse between nationals'' of a Covenant-breaking State and other League States. Since the League has pronounced Italy a Covenant-breaking State, Geneva correspondents were on watch last week to see whether intercourse would be had by the Italian Chief Delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi. Zealots said it would be a "League crime" if French Premier Pierre Laval or British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare had dealings of any sort with the Fascist Baron or even spoke...
Football, world's most popular sport to watch, will draw 20,000,000 spectators on eight Saturdays this autumn. Seven hundred thousand young men will play it, some for a living, some for an education, some for fun. It will cost the U. S. sports public $30,000,000. Last week football reached the mid-season peak of its most successful year since...
...clock in one of the House dining-rooms. At a long table seven carefree inmates awaited their soup. A respected economist and senior tutor seated himself in the vacant eighth place and also waited. But while the undergraduates were patient, he was clearly uneasy. He looked at his watch and groomed his pencil for singing the yellow slip in record time. But no yellow slip appeared. His face contorted with agony as the minutes passed. Finally, seeing an idle waitress across the room, he snatched up his napkin and rushed to her table. Over his shoulder he explained...
Their director was Robert Lippert, a big, tense, jowly man who was once a boy soprano in the German Lutheran Church in Olean, N. Y. Robert Lippert well remembers when he was 13 and his father, the choirmaster, gave him a gold watch and said: "Son, you can't sing with us any longer." Though Son Lippert's voice changed, his interest in choral singing persisted. As he grew up, he organized choirs of his own, concentrated on the relationship of the voice to a boy's physical development. His conclusion was that voices do not necessarily...