Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shorts. Biggest resemblance between the two movements was in the behavior of the shorts. At the end of May last year speculators had sold no less than 1,343,000 shares which they did not own, and were waiting to buy them back at lower prices. In the two weeks following the turn they were panicked into bidding up the prices of stocks which they had blithely sold. Some of them emerged without their shirts...
...known. (A pity, but why deny it?)" The Westerners were "grisly Esaus, full of dirty strength." Every forceful man in New England, he thought, had gone West. If his travels read like a drummer's timetable, his Abolition activities make lim look like a Balkan conspirator. Such behavior as his dining John Brown, "a real hero," might shock Concord, but Emerson snapped his fingers. It need not have surprised any who recalled that the American Revolution was barely a generaion old when the penniless Emerson boy used to "thrill" as he pastured the family cow "on the battlefield...
...followed a straight line of policy. He has long been pictured as emotionally unbalanced, but probably few men in public life have their emotions so completely under control. The man who in six short years has redrawn the map of Europe, overturned the old standards of political behavior and made the world listen to his every word, can turn his emotions on and off at will...
...etiquette. It is common practice among Anglicans and Episcopalians to "kneel" by simply bending their heads. Noisiest, least well-behaved of all Catholic churchgoers are those in Eastern Orthodox nations. For U. S. Catholics, and for such of their friends as might be interested, two useful guides to church behavior were circulated last week...
...about it. The picture itself is a good, noisy Technicolor, flag-waving Western, enlivened by Ann Sheridan, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn and a knock-down drag-out saloon fight. So continual is the random gunfire that cinemaddicts might guess that the place took its name from the necessary behavior of the inhabitants...