Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer evenings musing over the peoples he saw and the conversations he heard. The Millis who writes this human essay of European psychology and European faith is no longer that same Millis who penned the starkly economic interpretation of the World War--"The Road to War". In "Viewed Without Alarm" Mr. Millis seats himself comfortably in his soft, leathern easy-chair, and very soon sets us at ease over the supposedly tense European situation today...
...tickers flashed it to the floors of stock exchanges and stockmarket prices took a swift tumble. It spread in banner headlines across every newspaper. Presently it appeared that the U. S. was not .only surprised but also rather shocked. Only the most rabid New Deal newspapers openly applauded. The alarm of the independent press that ordinarily supports the Administration was typified by the New York Times, which sternly said: "Cleverness and adroitness in dealing with the Supreme Court are not qualities which sober-minded citizens will approve." Said a Scripps-Howard editorial writer: "Though not as crude as President Grant...
...price-raising disturbed Jay D. Runkle of Marshall Field's New York Office. In prices the merchant's interest is close to that of the customer, opposed to that of the manufacturer. The lower the price the easier it is to sell the goods. In viewing with alarm the commodity boom, Retailer Runkle opined: "It would be a serious thing for all of us if prices got out of bounds." Something the retail leaders wanted to keep in bounds quite as much as prices was internal opposition to the "little NRA" outlined by the Dry Goods Association directors...
...that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there had heard the impact and screams of the victims borne by the wind, had already given the alarm...
Unfortunately some blundering student happened along in the meantime and pumped the pump handle in passing with the same indifference that he would pull a fire alarm. But when he saw the foamy liquid gush forth into the trough, he let fly all thoughts of indifference, inertia, and psychic income, and lunged toward the dwindling stream of beer...