Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being a sensible woman, however, estimable-capable Widow Caraway will doubtless sit quietly where she belongs and listen politely-when she enters the Chamber at all. For who better than she should know the alarm with which women are viewed by the members of the Greatest Club in the World? She better than most people could feel last week the polite frigidity which permeated the Senate's stag atmosphere at news of her appointment. Her presence will restrain the free-&-easy language of the Democratic cloakroom. It may necessitate the construction of a private lavatory. Some Senators may feel...
...discussion or set of opinions on intercollegiate football really belongs in the "Whither-Are-We-Drifting" Department which is better equipped to view with alarm the growing tendency. The least interesting part of every football season is the public bleating that has accompanied it for the last four or five years, a sort of flat, dull noise emanating mostly from flat, dull people...
...adaptation, the game will cease to wag and the college and public hysteria will find another outlet. The steady growth of a more mature intelligence throughout the student bodies of the various schools of any intellectual and cultural importance will eventually accomplish all that the most hysterical. Viewer with Alarm could wish for, and with less fuss and attendant by-products of ennui...
This immediately had the expected effect of bringing into play the 4,241,000-share short interest which rushed in to cover its commitments. Prices rebounded. But in the following days the Governors watched the exhaustion of the short interest with alarm. In two days it decreased 1.079,000 shares. On Sept. 23 it was deemed essential to remove the restrictions, again permit short-selling, create a source of buying power. Although this was done the short interest did not increase rapidly enough to offset real liquidation. Prices declined sharply until Oct. 5 but the Exchange held its ground, made...
...leader of the opposition (unsuccessful) to the limited endorsement of Birth Control by the Lambeth Conference last year (TIME, Aug. 25. 1930). He is a weighty, vigorous opponent of Divorce. As was to be expected last week, he flayed both practices in the familiar language of viewers-with-alarm. He found increased divorce "sinister," contraceptives and companionate marriage "degrading." He dragged in a reference to the Soviet Government, begged the Denver Convention to repudiate the pronouncement of the Lambeth Conference...