Word: booming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prices. "Very little change has taken place in the general level of wholesale prices during the past four fiscal years. The absence of any sharp upward movement has shown the healthy character of our business activity and its freedom from the dangerous boom psychology. On the other hand, no sharp declines have reflected business depression or a general change in the relation between the volume of currency and credit and the volume of business...
...guns that go boom! boom...
Politicians next day read, blinked. Here was a popular warrior who could and would talk of politics. At what was he aiming? Perhaps they remembered that General Pershing's boom for President in 1923-24 had been mild talk which did not expand much outside of his own state of Nebraska; perhaps, too, they poked into history books to find that he is probably the only U. S. hero-warrior who has not been President or at least a serious candidate for the office.± If Warrior Pershing really has his eye on 1928 (which is doubtful even...
...orchestra was about the trampiest bunch of tramps that ever tramped, but thep put out good stuff and above the shreiks of the savages, through the boom of guns, out of the mouth of the orchestra pit came the six hundred best measures of dance music that ever greeted so motley a crowd...
...shot guns, made it their duty to see that the savages did not get away with any unsuspecting frollickers. At intervals throughout the dance these shaggy creatures would stealthily come up behind someone and pull the trigger. The hall would vibrate with shreiks of the weaker sex and the boom of firearms...