Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rare are sewer accidents like John Debo's. In 1929 in Manhattan an 8-year-old boy, playing carelessly about subway construction in East 53rd Street, tumbled into a sewer flowing to the East River three blocks away. Hearing the alarm, members of the Red Wing Boat Club, famed for its corpse recoveries, scurried to the sewer outlet at 49th Street, yanked the blubbering moppet out alive as he was being poured into the river...
...soon as all the bells get going, led by old No. 15, windows are flung open in Leverett, Winthrop, Adams, and Claverly* Houses, and even in Lowell House itself. Students whistle and shriek, alarm clocks ring; and everybody wails "Rinehart!"--the old Harvard wail. The bedlam lasts for about ten minutes, after which the High Tablers take a stiff drink of ink and go back to work. --New Yorker...
...McAdoo argued that the next war would "convert the civilized world into a madhouse." He chided the allied powers for not keeping their disarmament promises to Germany, warned that the U. S. could not safely purchase Europe's disarmament with War debt cancellation, viewed the Republican tariff with alarm...
Governor Lawrence Judd attempted to belittle the outburst of crime and racial animosity on his islands, begged the citizenry to remain calm. Said he: "Conditions warrant no occasion for alarm. The law enforcement agencies have the situation fully in hand...
...Commissioners examined 189 witnesses, from brewers to blue-ribboners. The report, which will be submitted to Parliament, was more optimistic than sensational. Viewed with alarm were...