Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well as young Lord Billing have proposed to her on the evening when, out of well-bred loyalty to her accomplices, she cracks the duchess' safe. When Lord Billing surprises her in the act of handing over her booty to her partner, Fay Cheyney rings the burglar alarm herself. The chance that her hostess will allow her to go to jail is removed next morning when Lord Kelton reveals that, in his anxiety to warn an innocent young girl about the people she will meet in polite society, he has written Fay an outspoken letter about the other guests...
...five minutes the entire Cambridge Fire Department rumbled into the Yard. In another minute the alarm stopped ringing, and a fireman reported that somebody had neglected to turn off the hot shower in Entry A, the heat therefrom precipitating the excitement...
There is some alarm lest the talks will develop into rivalries, with the instructors trying to outbid the other to get the customers. The possibilities of such competition are immense. Discounts and premiums would be part of the sales drives, and the departments could lure the trade with guarantees of minimum marks and maximum hours. If there is any tendency--and there may well be one--for the speeches to resemble the official catalogue, some of the Confidential Guide tricks will come in handy. Each instructor might be followed by seniors just through the particular mill, who would spend...
...begin, "Viewed Without Alarm" does not devote every page to interviews with Nazi bigwigs or Communist bureaucrats; nor does it attempt to count the number of guns in the Italian navy or the execution decrees in Stalin's desk drawer. It is a series of highly poignant snapshots of life on the Continent: conversations with young Russians, glimpses of a tavern in southern England, military maneuvers at Bad Nauheim. From these extremely natural sources uncovered through casual travel and occasional chatting Mr. Millis has distilled a convincing analysis of the various national points of view...
...cannot close Walter Millis' relatively short essay without a relieved feeling of satisfaction in our democratic government. "Viewed Without Alarm" is indeed a comfortable interpretation, but by no means is it a lazy one. Its pertinent, graphic ideas contribute a highly essential piece in the jig-saw puzzle of Europe...