Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engaged simultaneously in making love to and insulting the richest lady in Freedonia. He is also doing his best to foment war by abusing Ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern) of Sylvania who makes the mistake of hiring Chico and Harpo. They enter his office armed to the teeth with alarm clocks, scissors for cutting off coat tails, cigar butts and assorted bells. Assigned to pry into the affairs of Groucho, they begin by rolling a peanut stand under his window, making such a disturbance that to keep them quiet he makes Harpo his chauffeur, appoints Chico secretary...
While this would be inflation in a sense, it would be easier to defend and probably would not result in the psychology of alarm which has surrounded the printing press idea
While this would be inflation in a sense, it would be easier to defend and probably would not result in the psychology of alarm which has surrounded the printing press idea
...radio companies got their microphones at the ringside of important prizefights. Newspapers did not complain when football games went on the air, and political speeches, conventions, presidential addresses. But newspapers did complain when Radio began broadcasting news taken hot from news tickers or newspaper headlines. Newspapers viewed with alarm the formation of news-gathering staffs by the broadcasting companies, especially Columbia, which formed an ambitious subsidiary called Columbia News Service Inc. (TIME, Sept. 25). And last week the brewing quarrel between the Press and Radio flared up hotly when Columbia News Service made so bold as to try to invade...
Promptly Chinese bonds tobogganed and alarm grew so general that troops had to be thrown around the home of Generalissimo & Mrs. Chiang and the entire government quarter of Nanking. As Dr. Soong's successor Generalissimo Chiang picked the famed 75th lineal descendant of China's great sage Confucius, plump and placid Dr. H, H. Kung who smokes every day some 15 Havana cigars especially banded "Dr. H. H. Kung...