Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scare was thrown into the ranks of the committee for the Military and Naval Ball last night, when the rumor was circulated about that the National Student League still smarting from the disturbance of their meeting on the steps of Widener several weeks ago, were plotting the destruction of the Ball, scheduled for this Friday evening...
...Japan at the home of Mr. C. S. Ramlin '83. If was a private presentation, only a few friends being present. At the annual dinner of the East Asiatic Society later in the evening, the ambassador spoke of the happy relations of the countries and said the recent "war-scare" was due entirely to the reports the press had circulated on insufficient authority...
...ranging from General Schmidt of the poison gas department, a handful of colonels, a truckload of captains, down to a group of students who were supposed to start demonstrations in the street as soon as the assassinating had properly begun. Last week Rumania lay paralyzed by its worst assassination scare to date. The Government clapped on an iron censorship, pooh-poohed "a thing which usually should be regarded as nothing more than mere news." Police called in foreign correspondents who had slipped out "mere news" stories, lectured them and held the New York Times' correspondent Dr. Eugen Kovacs...
Once again last week the indefatigable Paris-Soir produced a first-rate scandal which, like last winter's government-inspired international spy scare (TIME, March 26, April 2), distracted Frenchmen from the malodorous Stavisky scandal. The Soir's story...
...small and the risks too great for a swindler like Sacha Stavisky to bother with international espionage. But one connection between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare for all it was worth in a gallant if hopeless effort to distract an enraged public from the malodorous morass of L'Affaire Stavisky...