Word: bugaboo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday, when the market reopened, speculators were nervous−their biggest bugaboo, the Federal Reserve Board, was to meet that afternoon. The usual Monday morning rally, produced by the accumulation of buying-orders during the weekend, failed to come. Call money was renewed at 9%. The rush of selling began. The bears pressed hot on the heels of their enemy; amateur speculators took flight and fled. Pool and investment houses which had been boosting favorites acknowledged the stampede, stepped aside to let it pass. The money rate went to 14%, the highest in nine years. At the close, many industrial...
...most striking gesture of labor was made outside the A. F. of L. convention. Also in New Orleans met delegates of newly-formed Labor Association, the American Wage-Earners protective conference representing 17 international unions with 250,000 members. The venerable bugaboo of tariff was their concern. They contended that present tariff rates were flooding the country with imported merchandise, that thousands of U. S. laborers were therefore out of work. This claim naturally hinged on statistics. There was a fat volume of them, gathered quietly in Manhattan during the past six months. Figures showing the increase of imported wares...
Commenced the King: "My relations with the foreign powers continue to be friendly. . . ." Ears strained to hear the bugaboo name of the Anglo-French Pact. But His Majesty in deep clear tones praised instead the Kellogg-Briand treaty renouncing war (TIME, Sept. 3), and omitted entirely to discuss that other Pact on which all thoughts were focused...
...Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (crook's bugaboo) : $3,249,367 against...
...Gantry. Evangelists are not popular upon Broadway and in the theatre they are monsters of depravity, to be baited and scorned. Sinclair Lewis in his savage history made Elmer Gantry a lewd and naughty figure. But in the play he is so wicked as to be incredible, an exaggerated bugaboo of vast proportion, snooping in his sordid tents with concupiscent treachery...