Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Saturday can be taken as any criterion, it seems to have made a good start. The conquerors of Yale were at a loss to check the powerful drives of the men from the land of oranges where they had a comparatively easy time with Albie Booth, the Elis' "alert atom...
With Scot MacDonald away, the steering committee of the Labor Party was in undisputed charge of its alert, broad-featured chairwoman, Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence, a rich barrister's daughter who would rather be Laborite than socialite. Last week Miss Lawrence heard rumblings of discord. People were beginning to say that the Prime Minister ought to be home solving the unemployment problem, not gadding about reducing navies. At such times the party executive must put up a front, loose an achievement or two as a sop to criticism. Observers divined the strategy of Arabella Susan Lawrence in the following...
...terms mean a continuation of its German profits. To Matchmaker Kreuger they mean another triumph in the diplomatic relations that exist between Swedish Match and the rest of the world. Although Herr Kreuger has been Great Matchman for the past dozen years, it was only last year that alert U. S. investors first became familiar with him (TIME, Oct. i, 1928). Then it was that Manhattan's Lee, Higginson Co. floated part of a $60,000,000 Kreuger & Toll bond issue. Since then, however, Kreuger-lore has been eagerly collected. There have been stories of his private island...
Known to few but the most alert tourists is peaceful, rose brick, medieval Albi, high-pitched above the river Tarn in southern France. News agencies turned toward Albi last week. Paris reporters trod its cobbled streets to attend and report the trial of Albi's famed "acid bandits": one Gleizes, a horse dealer, and one Aubes, a shopkeeper, accused of holding up the automobile of wealthy Mme. Holland, Albi businesswoman. Flinging vitriol in her face to blind her, they robbed her, left her in agony by the roadside. Into Albi's courtroom walked Mme. Rolland last week...
...Captain Barrett, one of the finest tackles in Eastern gridiron circles, the most alert man on the field and a steadying influence to a shaky line...