Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alarm in the City. Following the Chancellor's speech, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George leaped next day into the Parliamentary fray, proceeded with characteristic bombast to out-Socialist the Socialists, and proposed in terms which he carefully left vague "prompt measures to utilize the labor of workers in useful and essential schemes of national development...
...left Groton $500,000. Both became even more famed last spring when twice the chapel emitted, in the dead of night, not gentle, melodious, bell-music but a prodigious, strident jingling & jangling. There had been, Grotonians knew, depredations in the chapel. To catch the marauders (presumably schoolboys), wires and alarms had been rigged up. These went off, set the campus in an uproar, revealed naught but the fact that the alarm mechanism was faulty, had worked spontaneously. The villains have never been caught...
Americans will view these proceedings with alarm. But they cannot support the protective policy of the United States and condemn similar measures in Europe. Adam Smith, one of the greatest advocates of free trade, said that restrictions on trade were perfectly justifiable if in retaliation. But the evils which this measure will bring really overcome any abstract ideas of justice that it may have in its support...
...house. As the car neared the highway entrance to the Percy J. Orthwein estate at Huntleigh Village, St. Louis suburb, a Negro jumped out of the shrubbery, brandished a revolver, ousted the chauffeur. Negro, child and limousine disappeared in the distance. The chauffeur hurried back afoot to spread the alarm...
...first time since public alarm persuaded him to give it up in 1929, the Prince of Wales rode to hounds, with the Belvoir Hunt, near Melton Mowbray. Beside him rode his brother, Prince George. Galloping across a ploughed field, George's horse stepped into a watery ditch, somersaulted, pitched George on his left shoulder, which was dislocated...