Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...21st collection finds Editor O'Brien viewing the future of the short story with profound alarm. The year 1934 was a bad one, in which only 200 stories were found worthy of three stars, but it was "a notable" year for new writers, producing Dorothy McCleary, Allan Seager and William Saroyan. Editor O'Brien finds the short story threatened by the developing political interests of editors and critics, utters a dark warning against Fascism - Fascism from the left as well as from right-and complains that there are now too many little magazines...
...There is no chance," said he. But even as he spoke, other Senators were swelling with alarm at the London and Paris dispatches in their morning papers. Twenty years ago, they recalled, President Wilson, the State Department and unofficial Am-bassador-at-Large Edward Mandell House had played Britain's game. Now, they suspected, President Roosevelt, the State Department and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis were ready to play that game again...
...noisy were Berlin public markets last week that several times the capital was aroused by false-alarm rumors of "Food riots...
...drawing as Bridget's Dream, a nightmarish wedding of nightshirts, handkerchiefs, sunbonnets and bed socks (see cut). Generally however, he preferred historical scenes like the Opening of the Erie Canal or The Casting of the Liberty Bell. The Professor viewed the problem of woman suffrage with considerable alarm. He did a satirical series of pictures on the Triumph of Women's Rights. Typical was the scene at the polling place (see cut), where female ward heelers, one in pants, make life miserable for an unfortunate male...
...False Alarm of the week was an interview in which the Japanese Nippon Dempo News Agency quoted His Excellency General Kazushige Ugaki, Governor General of Korea, as saying that Japan could not remain neutral in the event of war between Italy and Ethiopia...