Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith, Viscount Furneaux and Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India: "As a member of the fashionably rowdy London Kit-Cat Club I assumedly viewed with alarm the publicity which it received last week, due to the shocking behavior of a Lord. Driven by one 'Teddy Oysters,' valiant old-school London cabby, the young Earl of Northesk led a 'hansom cab race' of nine other peers-about-town through Piccadilly to the very door of the Kit-Cat. . . . The police, unable to ignore the place after this escapade, prepared to raid it. Discovering...
...newsgatherers all, found fresh sources for fresh fun. The President, the Vice President, most of the Cabinet, many of the Senate, many of the House and a sprinkling of foreign diplomats took their seats, to be suddenly startled by the furious ringing of bells. A messenger entered bearing an alarm clock which he said was for Vice President Dawes. The messenger was rebuked for reviving an old source of embarrassment to Mr. Dawes . . . the nap he took when his presence in the Senate would have broken a tie and made Charles B. Warren Attorney General...
...Hour. Jugoslavs turned in their alarm and uncertainty to the great Pashitch, the bulwark of the present dynasty, the statesman who trebled the Kingdom of Serbia at Versailles, expanding it into Jugoslavia...
...thing is certain, there is nothing to view with alarm in the immigration statistics for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, announced last week by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. Since the passage of the Immigration Quota Law of 1924, which assigned a definite quota to the countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, it makes little difference in the alien population of the U. S. whether or not there is a bad potato crop in Ireland or a revolution in Hungary. Immigration has become a standpat, almost mechanical phenomenon. Compare the figures for the last two years...
...policeman's eyes grew wide with alarm. Even the impeccable cravat and faultless morning clothes of Lord Lloyd did not dispel the Fascist's intuitive feeling that anyone who asked the whereabouts of Il Duce's villa must want to murder him. No taker of chances, the con stable arrested the British dictator of Egypt, hurried him to a police station...