Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's fire companies were not only a potent political force, like those of New York, but the equivalent of the city's swankest clubs. Lily soon was as ardent a vamp as ever answered a midnight alarm or kept his rubber boots at the head of the bed. She was married about this time to Howard Coit (no relation to Cleveland's or Buffalo's Coits), then the leather-lunged Caller of the old Mining Exchange, but matrimony could not keep Lily out of the fire house. She answered every alarm, smoked, drank and played...
...home, never stirring from Miss Barrett's room except on her rare excursions to take the air in fine weather. By the time brisk Mr. Browning appeared to lay siege to Miss Barrett's fluttering heart, Flush was almost a softy. He viewed Mr. Browning with alarm, did his best to break up the match. On two occasions Flush attacked him, bit his stalwart leg to no effect. A graceful realist, he saw the struggle was hopeless, admitted Mr. Browning to his friendship...
...Join Mr. A. C. B. in the query, "Why? ? ? ? Why the bell?" Is it to awaken certain employees? Isn't the college aware that we have such things as alarm-clocks; that they can be had for as little as sixty-nine cents? Aren't the Powers Above aware that this nuisance is deleterious to the health? In my own case, I get one less hour of sleep each night. Think, too, of the psychological effect. It's like having a cannon go off outside your window! It usually spoils my whole morning, and I am sure...
...benefit from a fire standpoint. The way they are parked now on the streets all night blocks up hydrants, and interferes with traffic in case of fire. Moreover, if their cars were parked over near the Business School, students wouldn't chase the engines every time there is an alarm...
...Recovery Act could get from employers half the support it has had from Labor we would have double the number of newly employed. . . . The battle hymns of such gentlemen as Mr. Lund and Mr. Harriman have little place in the picture today. They sound too much like the alarm drums of special privilege, aroused by the determination of a nation to regain mastery over itself and to establish industrial freedom as a companion to our political freedom." Such shadow-boxing was only a foretaste of the A. F. of L. convention at which President Green was primed to denounce...