Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another wave of letters and petitions when they reconvene in January. The convention also introduced to the nation the man who, out of good Dr. Francis E. Townsend's misty imaginings, has built a rich & potent political organization which fills Eastern politicians with foreboding, Western politicians with genuine alarm...
...filling the air. It is election time. It is a time for rallies and demonstrates. it is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party. Boos for the opposition and booze for our side. We point with bride and we view with alarm. We must defend the Constitution. We must defend the American flag. We must protect the rights of the people...
This new contraption, an affair of rope and iron rungs, will be encased in a wooden box with a plate glass front, just big enough to make a beautiful target for your foot. The idea is that at the first peal of the fire alarm, the unfortunate inmate of the room makes a flying leap at the box and kicks the front in. Then in one rapid motion he hurls the rope ladder out the window, first making sure that it is tied to something in the room, and clambers nonchalantly down the wall, trying to act as though...
Last week students filled out countless official slips, sophomores bedeviled freshmen, college stores did the year's best business, presidents viewed with alarm the state of the world and most colleges and universities settled down to work. The following made news...
Like the proverbial old maid who looks for a man under her bed, the legislatures of the country seem to be suffering from a fixation concerning their own doom. Nothing could be a more ludicrous and at the same time pathetic example of the current alarm-clock insanity than the Masschusetts Teachers' Oath Bill which took effect in the Commonwealth yesterday...