Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white trousers appeared the dirty print of a smudgy, pudgy hand. In any campaign of Hoover v. Smith, if Republicans point to Smith's rich backer, Contractor William Kenny, Democrats will point back at Hoover's friend, Contractor Vare. If Tammany Hall is viewed with alarm, so will be the notorious voting of tombstones, alley cats, children and dead men in the Vare wards of Philadelphia...
Reasons for Alarm. Production of grain in the Soviet Union is now almost up to the pre-Revolutionary level, yet there is an acute shortage of grain in the cities, and so little is left for export that that figure now stands at less than one twentieth of the 10,000,000 tons exported in average Romanov years...
With so many large, well armed and variously belligerent forces in the Peking-Tientsin area, alarm was general lest the most serious disorders if not battles should ensue. In the circumstances, it was permissible to ask hourly, last week, "Peking, Peking, who's got Peking?" Amid extreme crisis, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek issued at Nanking an astounding communique: "The military phase of the Nationalist movement has been completed, rendering unnecessary further warfare. The office of Generalissimo is automatically terminated. The military council of the Nationalist government hereafter will administer all military affairs." In conclusion Chiang said that he will...
...their graduation exercises, and simultaneously has come another phenomenon that has accompanied them of recent years. As the number of students graduated shows a steady increase, the peri's of "mass-production" in education become apparent in many journalistic offices and there appears a succession of editorials "viewing with alarm" this development. Last week the size of the graduating class at Columbia University called forth the editorial in the Providence Journal printed elsewhere on this page...
...Ward Leigh is famed for many miles about Nyack, N. Y. as the lady who lives in a glass house surrounded by a high wire fence and never eats meat. Late one night last week, firemen answered an alarm at Mrs. Leigh's home. Reaching the wire fence they could not enter. Politely they phoned credentials (by a telephone at the outer gate); firmly they insisted that they were authentic firemen; were at length given entrance. Mrs. Ward Leigh they found seated before a large sirloin steak. Querulously she told them not to break the glass of her house...