Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budapest last week there arrived in the U. S. a significant picture (see cut) of the extremely practical Regent further entrenching himself in the devotion of his Guard by handing to the brave fellows on Christmas soap, bologna sausage, crockery, pots, pans and such especially prized gifts as an alarm clock and a meat grinder...
...Peter) Vanderpoel, lanky, critical financial editor of the Evening American. He was the first Chicago editor to treat the Board of Trade not as a privileged private club but as a public institution susceptible of improvement. With Royal Munger he was viewing the Insull empire with quiet alarm two years before it fell. In his column called "VANDERPOEL" he is usually to be found in any economic corner except the popular one. One of his punching bags currently is the general theory that real Recovery waits on a revival of heavy industry...
...Federal Reserve Branch Bank of Memphis, Tennessee's bumbling old Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar thought he would see how good the police were. He stepped on a burglar alarm. Police arrived in two minutes, took Senator McKellar to the lockup...
...Haru was a farmer's daughter. She said things like "Hai-hai!" and "O-i!" and "Ma-a!" So did everybody else in Takiya. They understood each other perfectly. They wanted no truck with newfangled gadgets like alarm clocks that went ji-ji-ji-ji. What they really liked was the noise of the silkworms feeding in the loft, the village bell calling to some occasion of innocent merriment...
Just the same, they could not stay away from the big city. O Haru's sister had gone there and was so lost to shame that she got a job as waitress at a café. O Haru's father went there, and returned with an alarm clock, a fountain pen, and a traveling bag for his wife. Noboru went there, to try to reclaim O Haru's sister, but she had got out of the way of saying "Ma-a!" and "O-i!" so they did not have much to talk about. Noboru went home, like...