Word: alerte
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Carmen was the best show in Cleveland's opera week. Newton Diehl Baker was lustily applauded when he entered. (Later an alert observer saw him pay for some punch with an old-fashioned big $1 bill.) Carmen, unlike murky Tom-Tom, was spirited, colorful; its settings a sunburned tan for daytime, a vivid purplish grey by night. There were many ballets; some starkly modern, some in hippy rumba style, one a whirlwind affair with the performers, in long green robes, mounted on horseback. Only unreal touch: the undersized, obviously stuffed bull dragged in at the last. The audience...
...company is up against a stone wall. It can't compete with the Bull." Durham's bull was the object of a score of lawsuits before he became the property of American Tobacco Co. in 1898. As time passed the bull seemed to grow younger, more alert. He turned his head east again, became civilized, modest, stood behind a fence. Nine years ago he went into retirement, did not reappear until last summer, when he emerged, still proud & handsome, looking for a mate...
...alert, the delegates rose. They clapped. They cheered. The band struck up "Iowa," in honor of the President's birthplace; then "California, Here I Come," in honor of his home state, whither he has not returned since 1928 and whither he said last week he could not return for the Olympic Games; then "I've Been Working on the Railroad," somehow associated with the President's engineering activities...
Thus last week at Chicago Mr. Smith reemerged, a vital, alert, aggressive personality, ready, if possible, to dominate the convention. He honestly believed he could get the nomination. If not, he expected to have a mighty say in who should...
...python by the throat. The python coils around the tiger's middle. The tiger shakes himself loose and goes to get a drink of water. Finally Frank Buck captures both, the python by hauling him into a cage, the tiger by building a box-trap out of logs. Alert cinemaddicts will guess that actually the tiger and the python were both captured before their fight, recaptured later for the camera...