Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tracing Lindbergh's admiration of the German air force, his alarm over British unpreparedness, Nicolson said: "He liked their grim efficiency and liked the mechanization of the State and he was not at all deterred by the suppression of free thought and free discussion. . . . The slow, organic will power of Britain eluded his observation. . . . He is and always will be not merely a schoolboy hero but also a schoolboy...
Last week Russia's gold reserve was a cause of acute alarm to the British Government. A rumor reached London that Russia had shipped 17½ tons of gold to Germany. At first the British Foreign Office was highly skeptical of the rumor, but later, when Sir Alfred Knox asked in the House of Commons whether the Government was aware of the report, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler replied: "Yes, sir, and my noble friend [Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax] has reason to believe that this report is not without foundation." If the Soviet Union was going...
...this were not enough, an air raid alarm went off at 2 o'clock and German planes flew overhead. We were trapped helplessly on the boat. Fortunately some nearby English planes drove off the German raiders, but the incident certainly gave us a few disquieting moments...
...should think that defenders of Harvard's laissez-faire educational tradition would view with alarm such a reversal of form as unannounced examinations of lecture notes. Yale, long reviled for her ten minute papers, can be accused of no such educational Inquisition. -The Yale Daily News
...Lawyer (by Richard Maibaum & Harry Clork; produced by George Abbott) is one of those athletic farces which have the delicacy of a subpoena and the subtlety of an alarm clock. A firm of young lawyers ready for the poorhouse ropes in a millionaire playboy overripe for the asylum. As the gilded nitwit is continuously prankish-he pours gin into milk bottles, steals peek-machines from penny arcades, drives his car up & down freight elevators, ties up girls on billiard tables-the firm of Lee, Russo & O'Rourke enjoys a continuous revenue, for a time. Then the screwball Tom (Eddie...