Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Babies have been born sucking their thumbs and the habit during the first two years of a child's life is no cause for alarm, provided the baby is healthy and well-developed. Thumbguards, says Dr. Kanner, do not break a child of thumbsucking. He will stop the habit if he has toys and other children to play with...
...debentures proposed to settle the claims of debenture-holders with stock in a new company, and the claims of other creditors with stock and notes. This plan would give the two biggest creditors, Oxford Paper Co. and Cuneo Press, control of the company. Filled with violent and vociferous alarm, a minority committee of debenture-holders marched into court last week to decry the plan as a "squeeze out" which sabotaged their rights. They persuaded the Special Master to order an investigation of the protective committee's origin and motives...
...this was Maclean's famed Saturday Evening Post of Canada, that its editorial on the Glorious First (Queen Victoria established the Dominion on July 1, 1867) was devoted not to the usual fanfare of Canadians pointing with pride to Canada but to a full page of viewing with alarm these and other Canadian troubles. Cried Maclean...
Gundlach, after Mr. Little was through, introduced that great Lampooner, Vinny Palmer, who proceeded to give the Ivy Oration, mainly a history of the escapades of the afore-mentioned Lampoon. This was relieved by the action of an effective alarm clock and a bunch of sputtering firecrackers. F. Donovan Bisby, alias fictitious Lampoon character, came in for a good many tributes and was listed as being the blackest member of the Class...
...Foreign Office permanent officials viewed Sir Sam with alarm. The new Foreign Secretary, so far as they know, has no views on foreign affairs, many on dancing at swank night clubs, tennis playing, and fancy figure skating, a pastime which he pursues in skin-tight black professional figure-skater costume not only at St. Moritz in winter but in London at all seasons on socialite Grosvenor House's rink...