Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good team. It is a highly-recommended picture. The action revolves about two star reporters trying to scoop each other. Paramount drags in the stock Hollywood conception of a newspaper: there is the hard-boiled city editor, played by George Bancroft and there is the constant occurrence of three alarm fires and murders attended by cynical, wise-cracking reporters. What distinguishes the movie is the sure, smart acting of Bennett and Grant...
Regarded at first with kindly tolerance, Reader's Digest in the late 1920's became a source of alarm to publishers who wondered if its checks made up for its bang-up competition for readers' attention. So Edi tor Wallace quietly began to publish original articles, now pays $500 to $1,000 for such material. Most famed Reader's Digest original was " -and Sudden Death," by Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, which ap peared in August 1935, dramatized the slaughter of automobile casualties, was quoted far & wide, fathered many a horror-struck accident report in the Press...
Approaching the rear platform in mock alarm, the tubby old editor cried, "Shoot not this old grey head," threw up his hand in a hearty Hitler salute (see cut), climbed up on the platform, shook hands while proud Emporians laughed and cheered...
This message could hardly mean anything less than that Soviet bombers and troop ships were about to start for Spain. In alarm the Great Powers peppered their diplomats in Moscow with urgent queries. When correspondents galloped into the Soviet Foreign Office on the diplomats' heels they were received by an official who said that he personally wished with all his heart that Soviet bombers were roaring toward Madrid. "Unhappily it is not so," shrugged this Bolshevik spokesman, "the Soviet has given its word that it will not intervene in Spain and the Soviet has always lived...
...make another selection of Cabinet officer from New York. I have thought it might not be unpleasant for you to accept the port folio of the State Dept." The week before the 61-year-old Fish had read the list of Grant's amateurish Cabinet selections with alarm, noting that one choice was plainly illegal, others were determined by the President's desire to aid his old friends from Galena, Ill., all by a naive concept of the President's responsibilities...