Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Point with Pride but if I were you I'd View with Alarm the fact that of all the magazines** going to my residence, TIME and LETTERS are the only ones ever filched by co-dwellers-or-visitors? in my apartment house...
...Partisans dared to mention him by name, the speeches of one & all were aimed directly at the President of the U. S. No less full of wails and warnings were a number of disgruntled Democrats who used Constitution Day to view the New Deal with loud alarm. If the contents of these addresses could be accepted as a fair indication of what the U. S. is in for next year, the Constitution will then be discussed with an extraordinary vehemence and a startling lack of originality. Excerpts from last week's outpourings...
Over New Toronto, Ontario, late one night last week, an airplane zig-zagged back & forth to the mild alarm of townsmen, who feared the pilot was lost. Much greater would have been their alarm if they had known that inside the lurching plane its pilot and his one small assistant were desperately fending off the attack of a bull-strong U. S. baseball player who had suddenly become a growling, biting sadist...
...wild a collection of exaggerations and banalities as to make the broadest parody an understatement. The man who most fully exemplifies Author Wallis' conclusions regarding the proper conduct for a modern politician is Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York. Passing all the tests of viewing with alarm, pointing with pride and gaining unfavorable publicity in the right places, Hamilton Fish Jr. impresses Author Wallis as the ideal candidate except for his Harvard education. He will, says Author Wallis firmly, be the Republican nominee for President before...
This is truly a matter to view with alarm, and without banter we suggest that some of our more ethnocentric loyalists and propagandists climb to the top of Grizzly Peak and bay back at Boston high society in the hill-billy jargon that is all they seem able to understand: just so this matter can be put straight. We are not too enthusiastic about the University, but there are very few movies we enjoy and we believe that Kipling was almost right: south is south, but by God, north is also north. --Daily Californian...