Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends would call an appeal to principle and his enemies an appeal to prejudice. A score of times he made his audience bellow with amusement, yet his address was delivered in a tragic spirit. To Al Smith, the Democracy was in danger, and Al Smith was sounding the alarm...
...arrive in limousines or in the school bus which shuttles swankly up & down Park Avenue. In the tight little world of metropolitan finishing schools, Spence has had its troubles. By 1932 it was undeniably losing ground to such rivals as Brearley, Chapin, Miss Hewitt's, Nightingale-Bamford. In alarm the trustees merged it with small Miss Chandor's School, under Valentine Laura Chandor. By the time Headmistress Chandor died last autumn Spence was again heading up. To carry on the good work the trustees last week picked as her successor and the school's fifth headmistress Miss...
...schoolboys have ever heard of H. H. Richardson. If they have eyes to see, though, they cannot help being aware of the type of architecture he popularized; if they are schoolboys of taste they view it with alarm. No man was ever more betrayed by his imitators. What the trade knew as "Richardsonian Romanesque" are the banks, schools, churches, libraries, jails which still dot the land, built of the knobbiest of rough-cut masonry, with livid tile roofs, arched windows and a profusion of useless squat towers. What his admirers have never ceased to point out is that Richardson himself...
...engines much nearer than usual, spied the airliner streaking past only 100 ft. above the trees. Suddenly, just after it passed from sight, the smooth drone of the engines ceased in a mighty crash like two claps of thunder. Mounting a horse Farmer Jones galloped to Goodwin, gave the alarm...
...many existing causes for alarm, one minor one has been Author Louis Golding's caracoling cleverness, which has frightened away more than a few cautious readers. His latest tale is frightening for a different and better reason: it intends to be. A psychological horror story, The Pursuer gives hunters of goose flesh and duck bumps some satisfactorily thrilling moments...