Word: alarmist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...redheaded" Winston Churchill, ultra-reactionary Chancellor of the British Exchequer, alarmist par excellence, hurled defiance at the Soviet government last week in terms so abusive as to make a diplomatic protest from Russia all but inevitable...
...alarmist may cry in vain, for this writing which panders to the lower class is not wholly bad. What is seriously harmful will pass out of itself as did the excessive license of the Restoration drama and as will the James Joyces and Ben Hechts in the upper literary strata. As the worst passes it will leave a literature for the masses which has a truer, broader interpretation of life...
...With the alarmist, whither-are-we drifting attitude of Mr. Blake toward your recent editorials, may I take issue? Your editorial page and in fact the whole paper has shown more alertness, vigor, and originality than at any time in the past six years. Mr. Blake must be accustomed to rather dull and obvious editorial fare so to condemn intelligent journalism exercising a legitimate right of leadership. Very truly yours, L. B. Young...
...Paris, numerous alarmist reports were circulated, had the effect of warming up the Socialists to refuse a vote of confidence to the Government when Parliament should meet. Premier Paul Painlevé, however, took a firm stand from the beginning against the défaitists with the result that, when Parliament did meet, discussion of the Riff War was postponed. This was, in fact, equivalent to a vote of confidence...
Scatch a statistician and you find an alarmist. Almost everyone who makes a practise of collecting tables and figures, and argues therefrom, has his own per theory of what will happen to this unfortunate republic in another twenty years if something or other is not done at once, or if it keeps on increasing at its present rate...