Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seldom has the general tendency of mankind to view with alarm been so vividly pointed out. One feels less, doubtful concerning national standards of 1926 when one knows that in 1827 people were writing such things us-- "a glance at our country and its present moral condition fills the mind with alarming apprehension." The jazz age has nothing on the age of crinolines and Jenny Lind. It will cheer the public to be apprised of its ancestors' wickedness, for the immobile faces in the family album become more human when their foibles are proclaimed...
...Liberal Club--71, Foity-Foist Street Every morning from 2 until the last alarm clock--Free lunch, free air--and the famous Senorita Gadfly. Worth half the price...
Even the quiet editorial page of the New York Times bellowed alarm...
...column on the day previous Mr. Brisbane had declared: "We are as unfit as Haiti to fight a modern nation." On six consecutive days, Mr. Brisbane, whose mass-public does not resent repetition of ideas, repeated the alarm...
...broadened, bringing with it more of the terrifying odors; a snort of alarm, figures of men and horses galloping from concealment, the crack of rifles, carnage. As survivors of the herd thundered off into fastnesses of their island (18 miles long, five wide), they could not know the worst: that this was no casual foray by human meat-hunters, but slaughter by up-to-date sportsmen, with intent to decimate. Not hunger but commercialism had precipitated the onslaught. The buffalo of Antelope Island were doomed, all but about 50 of them, to make way for more manageable and profitable cattle...