Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monthly payroll. As Commanders-in-Chief, most Presidents run the Navy only nominally, mak-ing appointments and issuing orders only as their Secretaries of the Navy may require. President Roosevelt, however, runs the Navy in fact. At first his election was viewed by the Navy with alarm. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels came close to wrecking the service's esprit and morale with his politics and naval men recalled that Assistant Secretary Roosevelt had also played a rattling good political game. He is wiser now than he was 14 years ago, and his naval building program, undertaken after...
Speaker Santiago Alba entered the semicircular hall of the Cortes in Madrid one afternoon last week. It was time for the session to begin. The Government was proposing to extend Spain's handy "state of alarm" another month to scare off a general farm-labor strike. A trade treaty with the U. S. was in the making. But as Speaker Santiago Alba's eye swept the benches, he goggled. The benches were nearly deserted, Government and Opposition. "Where are they all?'' he asked. A page boy told him they had all gone to a bull fight...
...Albert Einstein eight months ago he was so convinced that Nazi agents would attempt to murder the benign German scientist that he mounted a guard of gamekeepers over him. Lately the blatant manifestations of black-shirted British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley have filled Commander Locker-Lampson with wild alarm. He rose in the House of Commons last week to introduce a bill that would not only deprive Sir Oswald of his uniform, but would strip the shirt from his distinguished mother, the very dignified Katharine Maud. Lady Mosley, who used to deplore Sir Oswald as a Laborite...
Contrary to many of the rumors in general circulation about the Yard and the banks of the River, the morning operator is called upon only rarely to wake those somnambulous souls who put little or no faith in the pertinacity or effectiveness of their alarm-clocks...
With May Day approaching all Spain was edgy with nerves. A State of Alarm was declared for the second time in two months while armed Civil Guards took stations before every Madrid church after radicals had fired eight of them by night...