Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more versatile Cagney. As Terry Rooney, Manhattan band leader, he is called to Hollywood for the great opportunity. He leaves his girl, Rita (Evelyn Daw), to wait until he has demonstrated once more how a star is born. Studio specialists on clothes, coiffure, and voice view him with alarm. He refuses a Robert Taylor widow's peak, practices voice culture with, "The Dyuke blyew on his hunting horn and loffed, ha, ha, ha, when the hounds came running." Baffled by pear- shaped vowels, he escapes to the set where the old Cagney reasserts itself in two brawls...
...from the man who had, figuratively speaking, told Der Fuehrer he could go due south, the press seized on the last paragraph as "an attack on Hitler," or "a veiled thrust at Nazi Germany," and having had its little splurge abruptly dropped Dr. Bruening in favor of a four alarm fire in East Somerville and the current war on sex crimes...
Thus far this year about 5,000 children of the nation have developed poliomyelitis. By this time last year about 2,000 children had it. But the difference does not alarm epidemiologists of the U. S. Public Health Service, who call the current occurrence a "mild epidemic," because its cases are diffused over the entire Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region, reaching into Canada. Nonetheless, local health officers are worried. Communities are postponing school terms, forbidding children to attend theatres, go to parks, go in swimming pools...
...according to rumor, have been doing Japan's dirty work for years in Manchukuo. In 1929 he collected $700,000 in Imperial Russian funds from the Yokohama Specie Bank. Fortnight ago he was reported responsible for a raid on the Soviet consulate in Tientsin. Peiping's alarm was caused by a new report that he was on his way to raid the Soviet's Peiping Embassy...
...hostess,' said Tilley, coldly. 'Provided by the livery stable. Another dubious wonder of the modern world. In the event of emergency, she will be the one to walk to the nearest farmhouse, give the alarm, and be photographed.* Well, au revoir!' The coachman whipped up his cob, and the little party rumbled off along Fifty-ninth Street, Tilley brandishing his brassie with great ferocity at a horsefly. As we turned, we discovered to our surprise that the sidewalk, where he had paused a moment, was a pool of tears...