Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When war was declared, I enlisted, served with the ist Battalion Royal Highlanders (The Black Watch) till April 1919, [was] decorated with corporal's stripes and three medals. . . . Of the two years and a half which intervened before I emigrated to America I spent two years working and the half-year seeking work...
...when Cincinnati's old, famed Gruen Watch Co. found itself unable to pay $1,800,000 owed to banks, the banks asked Go-Getter Ben Katz if he could put the firm back on its feet. Substituting Gruen debentures and preferred stock for the bank loans, he thought he could do it in ten years. Last week he appeared to have done it with seven years to spare...
...above mentioned gridiron mentors left for Philadelphia Wednesday night to watch the Cornell-Pennsylvania Turkey Day classic because next year George Munger's Quakers appear on the Harvard schedule. The four coaches will also be on hand Saturday in Philadelphia to witness the annual Army-Navy clash to get another look at the Cadets in preparation for next fall's contest. They will return to Cambridge Sunday...
...John Anderson. In his chili-sauce style, he has sassed Walter Winchell. greeted a stage character who took too long to die with "Here's your shroud, Mr. Quimby, what's your hurry?", described a play as having "the same relation to the drama as a dollar watch has to the Greenwich Observatory." This week Critic Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash. His gulp-and-go-on method makes The American Theatre read like a Reader's Digest version of a massive...
Arriving in Manhattan to watch rehearsals of his new revue, Set to Music, brilliantine Author-Actor Noel Coward insisted: "I really never wrote an epigram in my life . . . only the crack dirty...