Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Master Culbertson, still wary of green suits, called super-bridge a false alarm, pointed out that "most people do not even know how to handle four suits, and three-suit bridge has a better chance for success than five-suit, bridge." But newspaper editors, tiring of wire stories from all ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas...
...Alarm Warns Apted...
...alarm which rang at 4:12 o'clock in the afternoon of December 31 startled the Lehman Hall office into quick and decisive action. Meanwhile the dauntless burglar was helping himself to priceless South American trinkets from the showcases of the Museum...
...part of a new department, "Transport" (1934). So many people objected to having words put into their mouths (although the facts reported were true) that "Imaginary Interviews" was eliminated in 1924; two years later "People" replaced it. Two departments in the first issue, "Point with Pride" and "View with Alarm," were the nearest TIME ever came to having an editorial page. Inconsistent with a disinterested editorial policy, both were abandoned...
...dole, football pools, aided by well-advertised slogans like "You can make a fortune for a penny," have grown each year until today it is reckoned that pool coupons go to three out of every four people in England. By last week this parasitic phenomenon had caused so much alarm that Parliament was getting ready to do something about...