Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While most are viewing with alarm the European situation, a storm brewing in the West threatens shortly to capture their complete attention. And well it might, for the irascibile Mr. Lewis is no believer in mild-mannered dickering but in angry speech-making and drastic action...
...dish of red fire to bring down the first act curtain, an off-stage explosion to close Act II. These punctuations are, however, not really necessary for in creating Grandpa Vanderhof (Henry Travers) and his clan -the Girl's family which the Boy's family views with alarm-the playwrights have conjured a species of dramatis personae which transcends plot, bursts the bonds of the established theatre and mounts into the stratosphere of great literary lunacy...
...only one thing: higher prices. In Illinois last week face powder formerly selling as low as 63? could not be legally retailed below $1.10. Even Major Benjamin H. Namm, head of Brooklyn's big Namm department store and a loud advocate of anti-loss-leader legislation, cried in alarm: "Price-fixing as a cure for predatory price-cutting is far worse than the disease itself...
...carbon dioxide gas again, that carbon dioxide in an unventilated room displaces oxygen without which no man can live, and that it is therefore a modern occupational hazard, two Brooklyn stevedores descended into the ship's hold to unload cases of cherries. They had time only to cry alarm before they dropped unconscious. Three other stevedores who went to the rescue also suffocated. All five were dead before they could be lifted to fresh...
...celebrated band to augment the efforts of 101 regular members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. For two hours, supported by the orchestra, the newcomers tooted saxophones, snorted through trombones, rattled wind machines, picked guitars, shrilled police whistles, thumped tom-toms, pumped accordions, wailed on bagpipes, clicked typewriters, crashed dishes, rang alarm bells and discharged revolvers to make memorable Paul Whiteman's winter debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra...