Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industries are processing sugar and canning pineapples, there is no doubt about who rules the territory, regardless of who happens to be holding forth in Iolani Palace. Most of these economic rulers, traditionally Republican, view the New Deal of their distinguished Democratic visitor with considerable apprehension, if not downright alarm...
...fortnight ago to crush Communist riots at Amsterdam where eight died and an old deaf woman went down with two bullets in her back (TIME, July 16). Last week more threats of disturbance in Rotterdam caused a large section of the city to be clapped under a state of alarm. In the Crooswyk quarter, where Communists were expected to demonstrate, troops moved in under orders to "Shoot on sight anyone who appears in the streets.'' When it came time for school children to go home the military police were ordered not to shoot at them, but otherwise...
Such a possibility filled Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas with violent and vociferous alarm. The Senate's No. 1 Inflationist, who likes to he photographed in tattered overalls to publicize the debtor's plight, considered it bad enough to have President Roosevelt temporarily peg the dollar at 59.06¢ last January but to have Governor Harrison attempt to hammer it down permanently on gold at that level was more than he could stand. To Governor Harrison at Basle he dispatched a sizzling 1,500-word cablegram at 10¢ per word (at his own expense) which indicated how much steam inflationists...
...West promoter was summoned to West London Police Court on the charge that in his rodeo he had "permitted an animal to be terrified, to wit. a steer." The steer had crashed into an exit gate of the rodeo arena, rebounded and dashed off bellowing with pain, to the alarm of British spectators who would scarcely have noticed dogs permitted to "terrify" a fox. "Things like that don't hurt a tough steer," snorted Tex Austin. "So far our rodeo has had only four real accidents- all of them to cowboys. The record is four broken collarbones...
...Great), she will make at least one more picture directed by Josef von Sternberg. Most pretentious picture on Paramount's present schedule is Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert), directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with Warren William as Caesar and 8,000 extras. The Legion of Decency will probably take loud alarm at She Loves Me Not, Sailor, Beware! and The Pursuit of Happiness, all Manhattan stage successes of the last season and all concerned with misbehavior. A Paramount experiment this year will be four pictures produced in Manhattan by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht...