Word: alerte
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...Brief": The cuckoo was heard on Monday morning in the coppices at Coombe Hill, Surrey. Two items down appeared an intimation that the Duke of Gloucester, third son of His Majesty George V, had consented to become the Patron of a charitable institute. Provokingly mysterious and stimulating to alert imaginations was a third gem of news, the eighth in the column: Two men dressed in plus fours were seen by a policeman early yesterday morning throwing coathangers over the railings of Battersea Park. When they saw the policeman they jumped into a red saloon motorcar and drove off towards Chelsea...
...story about Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. had been printed not long before (TIME, Feb. 25). Soon Mrs. Christie wrote her thanks to TIME, and the letter too was printed. The press picked it up, sent it broadcast. Editors in far-away cities editorialed. The alert Minneapolis Star sent a pleasant photographer who snapped a very good likeness ?the one used by nearly all the rotogravures...
...this time every tentacle of the press was alert, vibrant. Feature writers rushed pellmell out to Red Lake Falls on a jerkwater train, half box cars. They gleaned little enough, wrote much. In a letter to TIME not for publication Mrs. Christie presently said, among other things, that she has given no personal interviews, ex cept some long ago on economic subjects. That fact did not stop the feature writers, but they went a little easy, because Mr. Christie is a country editor, one of the craft...
Newspaper readers occasionally encounter in the day's news the following cryptogram: "etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu." It is obviously some sort of typographical error, but what must have puzzled many an alert layman is the regularity of the error's spelling. It always, somehow, turns into "etaoin shrdlu...
Perfectly alert and mobile, the brain followed each move of the Mexican revolution (see MEXICO), as Mme. Foch read rapidly from latest editions of Le Temps. Ever and always the Generalissimo, her husband, who had long since lost all appetite, ordered his jaws to chew, his gullet to swallow, and so far as in him lay, his stomach to digest...