Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unlike Vice President Curtis, the Democratic Nominee has not been allowed to stump the small time political circuits. While the Speaker was silent his rule of the House was built up by G. O. Partisans into a major campaign issue. Again & again President Hoover pointed to it with shuddering alarm as the kind of thing of which the country could expect a lot more if he were defeated...
With dramatic purity assured by the high qualifications of Censor White and with literature in Boston still one of the principal concerns of Superintendent of Police Michael H. Crowley, the decline in prestige and potency of the Watch and Ward Society of New England need be no cause for alarm. Chaste virtue will still be the essential characteristic of service of the Muses along the banks of the Charles so long as Boston's morals are in the hands of those guardian cherubim, Stan White and Mike Crowley. --New York Herald-Tribune...
...insisted its scope was purely domestic, denied that its real aim was to meet foreign demands for gold. ?Senator Carter Glass last week contradicted the President, declared that though he had been in the midst of last winter's financial fight, he had heard no Administration spokesman express alarm about the gold standard...
...only does the American Medical Association view Candidate Brinkley with alarm but so do the regular Kansas gubernatorial nominees, Republican Alf M. Landon and Democrat Harry Woodring, who is trying to succeed himself. Both have devoted considerable effort to chocking what appears to be a steadily oncoming Brinkley steamroller. Two years ago Governor Woodring squeezed into office with a majority of 319 votes. John Brinkley, his name not on the ballot, polled close to the leaders with 188,000 votes...
Twice before had Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores suffered exile from his native land for Mother Church. But never before had he been up in an airplane. His expression of dazed surprise changed to one of prayerful alarm as the plane, with two detectives and a kinsman of the Archbishop's aboard, swept him up over the mountains towards the coast...