Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Internally both nations are very much in favor of the proposed union" said Professor Fay. "But there is one possible stumbling-block which may upset the whole apple cart and that is the alarm with which the Austrian Roman Catholics are regarding their probable subordination to the overwhelming number of Protestants in Germany. In Austria the Catholics form a large majority, while in Germany it is just the other way around. Monsignor Seipel is said to have hurried back from Switzerland to Vienna and declared that his followers will support the union only provided it is approved by those nations...
Professor Henry Norris Russell, astronomer of Princeton University: "The final effect might be anything from one so small it could hardly be detected to a colossal catastrophe. But present scientific indications do not give ground for alarm...
...with disturbing remembrance of similar demonstrations at baseball games last spring suddenly came a shower of editorial comment from our contemporaries, which aroused us to a realization that this "lapse" is widespread. At Oregon University, Yale, Brown, Columbia and numerous others, undergraduate and alumni editors are "viewing with alarm." So far, they too seem to have considered the bad manners to be mere passing clouds, but we are inclined to wonder...
...once married to Crooner Harry Richman (onetime suitor of Cinemactress Clara Bow), disappeared when police stupidly notified her by telephone of Gangster Marco's demise. ¶Three armed robbers entered a 5th Avenue jeweler's office, took $8,000 worth of diamonds, then, frightened, fled precipitately. An alarm brought 100 policemen and detectives to surround the building. Two of the thieves were apprehended. One was Roy H. Sloane, onetime boy prodigy of Carnegie School of Technology and Columbia University, who was sentenced five years ago to serve ten years in Sing Sing for an automobile theft. Prodigy Sloane...
...Lived Next to the Firehouse. This burlesque reaches an eventful climax when a brigade of smoke-eaters, having individually secreted themselves in the home of a igth Century charmer, are roused out by a fire alarm, rush off to the blaze clad in long red-flannel underclothing. Main plot: a group of firemen are enamored of the lady who lives next door, court her privily when her husband (a traveling salesman) is away, are found out and have to explain their activities to their wives. To create atmosphere of the gay '90s, old wheezes are cracked, luxurious mustaches...