Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tell your political editor, who is otherwise a really estimable fellow, to watch his figure...
Dunkers in all-night coffee pots and diners, cabbies dozing on the late-trick hack lines, night watchmen, charwomen, belated motorists, bakers, lighthouse keepers, lobster-trick pressmen, the boys in the bars and all the other sun dodgers standing the great night watch in Manhattan and all along the eastern seaboard have one companion that never goes to sleep on them. That cheerful stayer-up is WNEW's Milkman's Matinee, a 2-to-7 a. m. program of requested recordings, small-fry commercials and chummy gab conducted six mornings a week by a young announcer with...
...event in the country, except opening night at the Metropolitan Opera or the National Horse Show, attracts a more plush crowd than that which assembles nightly in the wooden pavilion known as the Saratoga Sales Paddock. There the patrons of horse racing, hoping to spot another Man o' War, watch the young thoroughbreds parade around the arena, bid for those they fancy...
Although the Duke of Windsor, 45, looks more and more like the late John D. Rockefeller, 98, and his lean Duchess, 43, looks more and more like herself, they have recently been annoyed by long-distance peeckers who watch them at play in their seaside bathing pool near Cannes. Hearing that a tourist agency advertises a special $1.50 boat excursion "to see the Windsors bathe," having appealed in vain to the French Prefect (who said with a desolated shrug, "The Mediterranean belongs to everyone"), the Duke had tall canvas screens put up around the pool...
Besides having no automobile, he carries no watch. He gets the time from waiters, or from clocks in store windows, and one of the duties of his man secretary is to tell him the time. The other duties of the secretary include seeing that his clothes are pressed and that he sometimes gets a haircut. His critics say that it's a pose, his friends that he has always been that...