Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris all customs unions are viewed with alarm because the French Government is strenuously exerting itself to keep Germany and Austria from forming one and wants no bad examples set elsewhere. "Let us hope and trust," frowned Parisian Pundit Andre Geraud ("Pertinax"), "that Mussolini and his councillors will refrain from posing a problem so dangerous to the peace of the Adriatic and to Europe...
...Thompson of Barberton, Ohio owns a blue alarm clock. One day last month his wife noticed that a spider, which she described as a "tiny black dot," had somehow got between the face and the glass. From minute hand to hour hand the insect stretched and tethered its silky strands. The hands moved on, tore them asunder. Next hour the spider tried again; again the hands revolved, destroyed. The spider was still trying when the alarm sounded next morning. Friends & neighbors came to watch as day by day the hands grew fusty with gossamer. Each night C. C. Thompson wound...
...gentleman suggested that it was a convenience to the men who work in Commons. That was distinctly an idea, but it was not a very good one; since only a small proportion of the student waiters sleep within waking distance of the Nassau bell and since alarm clocks are now sold at a price within the reach of everyone...
...very serious matter. The unfortunate undergraduates who live under the shadow of Nassau Hall probably become inured to the clamor after a short time and find they can sleep through it. The thing is a nuisance, however, and if the Commons men can be supplied with alarm clocks and the sentimentalists reconciled, we suggest that it be abolished. --Daily Princetonian...
...into it. In doing so she was whirled against the cabin door, which flew open. Her foot caught in a safety strap, saved her. Pilot Copeland pulled the plane safely out of the spin about 100 ft. above the chimney tops-so low that 700 persons telephoned a crash alarm to police...