Word: alerte
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...exception been sad and spiritless products proving, to the accompaniment of chop-suey music, that all Chinese look alike. This travelog is a novelty because it is witty and de luxe, the record of a trip which must have been fun and of a personality which is happy, egoistic, alert. Douglas Fairbanks obviously enjoyed making it, should enjoy a handsome profit from his pleasure. Last week he set off for the Orient again, this time accompanied by four technicians. Director Lewis Milestone and Writer Robert Benchley...
...permanent than money, the technical knowledge that will enable them to find work. Also, it proposes to give to business leaders the information that will help them to rebuild the economic world intelligently. In this way, the practical value of books, now known to a relatively small number of alert individuals, is to become widely known through the force of national publicity...
Labor's formal but innocuous attack on the Speech (written of course not by King George but by Scot MacDonald) was launched by Labor M. P. Sir Stafford Cripps, an alert "comer" now forging to party leadership. Sir Stafford moved an amendment to the Throne Speech regretting that it had "omitted all items of socialistic legislation," saw his amendment killed by the crushing Government majority, largest in British history (TIME...
...alert when the Prime Minister denounced "Crazy World Economy" and called War Debts and Reparations "this absurd entanglement of the impossible." They relaxed, yawned when he proposed nothing more than to follow the line of re-examining German capacity-to-pay, the line already taken by Mr. Hoover and M. Laval. When Orator MacDonald turned to gold, harping on Philip Snowden's old project for a world monetary conference to "wisely redistribute" the precious metal, M. P.s noticed again that in fiscal matters the Prime Minister is a romantic. Realistically the U. S. and France oppose all schemes...
...First white correspondent to reach General Ma was small, dark, alert Fred Kuh (pronounced "coo") who had dashed 6,000 mi. overland from Berlin where he is Bureau manager for United Press. In crossing the entire breadth of Russia, passing the Soviet frontier, coming on to Tsitsihar, experienced Correspondent Kuh saw no evidence of Red Army troop movements or war preparation of any kind by the Soviet Union...