Word: alerte
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...players through 68 plays in six years. Some of his actors (Elmer Lehr, Russell Collins, Carl Benton Reid) have performed more than 650 times in some 50 roles, "an experience, incidentally," says Director McConnell, "which the trained European actor takes as a matter of course." At their Play House, alert Clevelanders see many a play, from Shakespeare to Shaw, invisible elsewhere...
With such talk on loose tongues, many a correspondent lolling at his ease in Vienna cabled of swords loose in their scabbards; but two alert, able newsgatherers approached the possible theatre of war from opposite sides and saw what mobilization existed...
Also in Vienna, where alert judges have accepted the evidence of blood chemistry in determining paternity, the court last week accepted the psychoanalysis of Dr. Sigmund Freud. Singer Richard Gauber, contracted to the Vienna Opera Company, refused to return from leave of absence in Berlin because, as he explained, "he could not stand traveling and because he was able to act and sing much better before a German than an Austrian audience, as the latter affected him mentally." In evidence he offered Dr. Freud's analysis of his mental eddies. The judge gravely studied the report and decided that...
...physical amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves of the great open spaces of the Westmorly swimming pool, and increase the amount of his breakfast by a quarter of a dollar. Bright eyed and mentally alert he can sit through all his lectures with one eye on his watch, the other on the window whence come signs of spring, and his mind's eye visualizing a yacht on the blue or a shack in the clouds. Even the dullest of subjects will fail to induce sleep...
...Archbishop of York, 62 and alert, spoke: Let the Churchmen ponder well these changes. The bishops will have to vote on them in March, the Church as a whole in July, and later Parliament, for in the end Parliament controls the Established Church in Egland...