Word: alerte
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...impressed when he gave them his manuscript two years ago, a rude affair with a simple melody line sketched in, the words squeezed underneath in cramped, schoolboyish writing. They tucked it away in a safe and forgot about it until a few months ago when Addy Britt, an alert young song-plugger, quietly took it out and gave it to George Olsen...
...seem, as a nation, to have lost the capacity to generalize and the instinct to imagine. Our newspapers are not sensations, in that they do not deal in the unexpected. All is anteriorly familiar to the alert for our managing editors never print really important news until someone has shown them that it is important and our minds are already prepared for the impact. The American breed of journalism is the tamest in the world, for it never carries on the exciting warfare of principle, it is never inflamed by the ardor of a great cause. Mr. G. K. Chesterton...
...Extra alert were the Coast Guard outside of New York Harbor one night last week. They had been tipped off that a big load of Canadian liquor was to be smuggled in. When a passing steamer signalled that she was the Texas Ranger, inbound from Galveston, they did not inquire further. They knew the Texas Ranger was about due, and coastwise vessels of U. S. registry do not have to touch at Quarantine...
...newspaper, and of widening their sphere of acquaintanceship among the faculty and student body: Candidates, however, will not be confined to the University in their work; frequent opportunity will arise for those so desiring to interview prominent figures in every walk of life from politics to the chorus. The alert man will receive credit for his scoops and special articles; he will penetrate the mystery hovering about twelve point Roman caps, and he will acquire the esoteric art of reading slugs, still red and glowing from the linotype. In fact, the more ambitious have been known to receive instruction...
German 5 is dull and monotonous in presentation. Daily throughout the year the student prepares about eight pages in his book and translates only a few words in class. The alert can determine exactly when they are to be called upon, thus making it quite unnecessary to awaken for more than ten minutes each hour. The books read are for the most part intended for second or third year work in German and say so in the prefaces. As in preparatory school courses, the examinations are marked solely on the basis of literal translation of selected passages. The course will...