Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government. Premier Macdonald's health was reported to be causing grave alarm. The double yoke of the Premiership and the Foreign Secretaryship were said to be aggravating has already poor state of health. His colleagues in the Cabinet want him to surrender the foreign portfolio. Meanwhile leaders in the House of Commons acted sympathetically toward...
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm...
Only members of his family, physicians and two nurses saw him-so intent was he that the news of his condition should not alarm the country. Even his valet, who shaved him, was not allowed to come to him, and he grew whiskers, for the first time since the days when, as a student at Johns Hopkins, he had cultivated sideburns. He had a phonograph brought to his bedside to minister to his undiminished love of music. Official papers were brought to him, and he signed them with effort, as best he could. After many months he was again able...
...greater part of the world, Fascism has become a beacon of light shining in Rome, and toward which all people of the earth look, especially those who have suffered the ills we have suffered. Fascism never turns back, and I am sure that if tomorrow I should sound an alarm the whole of Italy would rally to our banners...
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: "Savages and barbarians and the possessors of child minds in general...