Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the alarm came from an unsavory part of town?in which Reporter Leary had conducted a vice investigation six months ago and for which he was permitted to carry a pistol?Acting Captain of Detectives Thomas Rowe collected reserves from headquarters, deputized Reporter Leary on the spot. From whimpering Mrs. Bray the identity and whereabouts of the murderer were found. Captain Rowe, Reporter Leary and seven others went in after him, cornered him in a dark back room. Leary was ordered outside to cover the window with a flashlight...
...customary in the case of world-wide Soviet demonstrations the announcement of Anti-War Day caused more anticipatory alarm than subsequent Communist activity warranted. Outside of Russia police systems were prudently tightened, known agitators placed under surveillance. When the day had passed, the following had been recorded...
...Copenhagen Prime Minister Stauning showed no alarm over the Faroes' flag day. "Flags have a peculiar power over some people," said he. "The Thorshavn affair should not be taken too seriously...
...When I was sure that nothing further could be done for Al, I next thought of the families of the three boys who had been in the canoe with him. These three boys were all excellent swimmers. It seemed to me that it would greatly worry and needlessly alarm the families, particularly the mothers of these boys, if they were told that their sons had been in a canoe accident in which one person had been drowned. ... It is most unfortunate that the activities of the New York University publicity agents have resulted in coloring the facts as they have...
...children to become "class soldiers for a class war." Some of his principals exhibited pamphlets found on their pupils which read: "Down with the schools, the flag, the principals!" They told how scholars played hookey on May Day, played "escape from prison" in place of hide-&-seek. Viewed with alarm was a 15-year-old caught on the subway with books by Lenin, Scott Nearing and Harvard's Professor Felix Frankfurter...