Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dame Rumor has sent me on more wild-goose chases than I have ever taken the trouble to count. Often have I scrapped a perfectly good column to go out on a rumor tangle only to find that someone had struck another false alarm. But there is something fascinating about all this. Big news breaks now and then. These breaks make up for the slow days and put a new zest into the life of the newspaper world...
...Clifton Springs (N. Y.) sanitarium to his White Plains home; in Utica, N. Y. With his brother Mitchell H., he first showed moving pictures with Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope (1894) in a Buffalo dime museum. In 1903 he showed a first film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario of the epochmaking 18-piece orchestra was Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. In 1926 Moe Mark sold some...
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...Brooklyn, arrested for turning in false fire alarms, Julia Callahan, 27, housemaid, said she would keep on until the City of New York indemnified her for live teeth knocked out by a fireman in 1929 when she playfully turned in a false alarm...
...nation was, of course, still surviving all these misfortunes. And September had showed a slight pick-up in employment. Bank failures were disappearing. Here & there factory chimneys began to smoke again. After many a false alarm business seemed in the act of struggling back to its feet. But there was abroad in the land a spirit of unrest such as the country had not known since the War. Then the spirit had been directed outward, against a foreign enemy. Now it was an internal trouble, the country contemplating itself...