Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one morning a guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery about the fate of the escapers. Searchlights and guards spotted them at the water's edge, one picking up driftwood...
Enough to alarm the woman-wary is the contemporary trend to novels and memoirs by writers' wives and mistresses. Few years ago Arnold Bennett's mistress, Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, and his wife, Marguerite, published their intimate memoirs. About the same time appeared the memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife, Frieda. While these memoirs spilled plenty of beans, at least they were withheld until their subjects were dead. Not so Half A Loaf, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel by Sinclair Lewis' exwife, Grace Hegger...
...formidable did the Garner economy bloc appear last week that alert little David Lasser, president of the Workers Alliance (reliefers' union) sounded an alarm, called for "the angry voice of the people" to halt "the reckless plans of Garner and his clique...
Meanwhile, all Gibraltar had been aroused. Shells fell in the little village of Caleta, on the east side of the Rock, destroyed two houses, damaged a power plant, wounded four British subjects. General Sir Edmund Ironside, commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, sounded an alarm, called out the entire British garrison. The British destroyer Vanoc and a French destroyer, the Basque, went to investigate. Gibraltar's guns fired blank shells to warn the Rebel warships that they were firing on British territory...
...cotton textile industry two years ago noted with alarm that Japanese shipments of cotton textiles had grown from 1,115,000 square yards in 1933 to 155,000,000 in 1937. With a U. S. trade pact or a discriminating tariff impossible to arrange, Claudius Temple Murchison, president of the Cotton-Textile Institute, packed off to Japan with a delegation of businessmen. Somewhat to his own surprise he negotiated a private pact limiting imports from Japan to 255,000,000 yards for 1937 and 1938 (TIME, March 8, 1937). Last week, declaring the pact a great success, Dr. Murchison signed...