Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young men who had come provided to pray for "Greater Japan" equipped with everything from ancient Samurai headgear and swords to daggers, cans of kerosene and banners appealing to the public in such moving terms that police kept the texts rigidly secret. After grim days of extreme alarm, with police guarding banks, major business offices, electric power stations and waterworks, tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party. Out of their limousine stepped U. S. Ambassador & Mrs. Joseph Clark Grew, he a trifle lame and slightly deaf. Just as they reached the Premier's door bedlam broke...
...years ago Dr. Zook became president of the University of Akron (Ohio), a tax-supported institution with 87 teachers and 1,322 students, Akronites attending gratis. Nearest Akron has come to fame was when its Professor Walter Charles Kraatz was erroneously reported to have been sent, for observation, an alarm clock containing a spider that for three weeks attempted to spin a web from hour hand to minute hand. President Zook ran his University ably. He kept his political views to himself. He joined Rotary. He is a Methodist. He and Mrs. Zook have an adopted son, Charley, just...
...steelmen have eyed Detroit with pleasure in the past two months, they have also eyed it with alarm. There H. M. Naugle and A. J. Townsend have a plant abuilding. Messrs. Naugle & Townsend once revolutionized a good section of the industry with their continuous sheet steel rolling mill-only new steelmaking process adopted by the industry in the past 41 years. And steelmen knew that what they had done once they might do again. The new Naugle-Townsend plant is to test the commercial possibilities of casting steel by the rotary method. Chief advantages...
...thinking of you") became the first clear ground for a public stand, and even here the ground was limited. Familiar enough with stockmarket tips, the average citizen could not, except in envy, condemn private individuals who enjoyed the friendship of the House of Morgan. But he could view with alarm the presence in public office of Morgan favorites. When Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot found State Supreme Court Justices William I. Schaffer and John W. Kephart on the Morgan list, he first demanded their resignations to save the bother of impeachments. In Massachusetts onetime Governor Fuller announced he would...
...notion was a "shadow waltz" with a chorus in triple-decked hoop skirts carrying phosphorescent violins. The stage presently darkens so that the violins appear to float about under their own power, finally waltz themselves into the outline of an immense bull fiddle. Good shot: Guy Kibbee's alarm when he looks in a mirror and detects a resemblance between his own face and that of a chorus girl's Pekinese, which he is holding under his arm. The Nuisance (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). No actor in Hollywood is more adept than Lee Tracy at characterizations of likable rogues...