Word: alerte
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...requires the careful ministrations of three capable principals to save the authors' bacon from the fire of public disapproval, and the principals cook to the queen's taste. The methods of the three are in great contrast. Miss Kennedy depends upon her ability as an actress; she is constantly alert from beginning to end, with never a gesture too many, and never a quarter note too high, so far as she can see. Sidney Blackmer, as Gregory Farnham, the American lover, twice entangled by engagements, employs the easy, off-stage air which distinguishes Roland Young. There is too much, physically...
...point lead. Powerful line bucks by Miller alternated with shifty running by Putnam and French accounted for most of the advances. On the defense the University linemen led by a fast, fighting pivot in the person of Gamache were equally effective. Holy Cross succeeded in penetrating this alert, smashing defense for few gains and were never in a position to threaten the Harvard goal line...
...Alert, employes of the Department of Agriculture scent after those scamps, the adulterers of food and drug products, rejoice to waylay those who tamper with comestibles or medicaments. In this sense, last week, Acting Secretary Charles Frederick Marvin was pleased to expose his judgments upon 50 violations of the Food and Drugs Act. Walnuts, 29 bags, were condemned because they contained "filthy, decomposed and putrid animal substance." An Oklahoma shipment of eggs showed "71.1% inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed rots, spot rots, blood rings and moldy eggs." There was no potency in "Womanette . . . emphatically the Woman...
That night in the waitresses' dormitory at The Balsams they discussed the miracle far into the night. Who on earth was Lydia Pinkham Gove? Why should she be handing out free airplane trips to California? One alert girl remembered reading in the newspapers that a Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass., had just flown home from California with the pastor's assistant of the Second Unitarian Church of Salem, one James Luther Adams. Both passengers had been wildly enthusiastic about their jaunt. The newspaper, a local sheet, had called it "an important epoch in aviation history...
...more alert of the Cleveland citizenry know that Dr. George Washington Crile is one of the great men of surgery. They know that his method of blocking nerves to prevent the shock of operations (anoci-association) is as great a landmark in medicine as the first application of anesthetics, that he has improved the method of transfusing blood; that he is a world authority on goiter, that at his Cleveland Clinic they may get a physical examination of scholarly exactitude. Very few know that he and his associates have performed 2,670 experiments on animals, including man, and made countless...