Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trouble continues with the British, who tighten their watch and insist, on calling the prisoner simply General Bonaparte...
First prize in last week's race in addition to a cup donated by young George Vanderbilt, whose Cousin William K. put up the first one, was $20,000. The course was 75 times around the brand new pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway (TIME, Sept. 28). To watch the race, lured by publicity which stressed the possibility that it might produce several fatalities, went a crowd of 50,000, including a list of boxholders, at $27.50 per person, which read like a carefully abridged social register...
...make headlines is that he inherited 60% of its 2,000 shares from his father, who got control of the institution 33 years ago. At the bank, "100%" Nichols has a private office but spends most of his time at a desk in the lobby where he can watch people come and go. He travels to work in a Duesenberg, which he likes to drive fast, piling up in a ditch not long ago. Now 45, short, black-haired, profane, he talks out of the side of his mouth, looks not unlike the late Huey Pierce Long...
...when the unearthly light seemed to permeate every atom of air in the "dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane on the clouds. Down below him the yellow wraith of gas crept "pantherlike over the scarred earth, curling down into dugouts, coiling and uncoiling at the wind's whim." In the networks of wires and trenches, the miles of invisible men, walking, talking, fighting...
...read or hear his voice. He keeps abreast of the news by reading with one finger the lips of his secretary. On the air he talks from Braille notes, speaks clearly and without hesitation, and stops when his fifteen minutes are up by feeling the hands of a glassless watch...