Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best shots: Chetoga's lonely vigil to appease the Manitou; the fall of a great pine, symbolizing Chetoga's death; un-faked closeups of deer, wolverines, 75,000 caribou; a bear and mountain lion fighting; the wolf pack trying to hamstring, then Baluk spearing, a bull moose...
...time element is the important one now. And when it does come and prices start up again, the public will jump in just as it did last time, though it is to be hoped that the movement can be kept within the bounds of reason when the next bull market really gets under way. The greatest danger lies in the lack of judgment on the part of the average speculator and investor. Mob psychology invariably rules the day, and the elemental principle that stocks are a much more attractive buy when low than when high has no effect in curbing...
...does not, however, signify that recent reverses in stock prices have cured the country of the desire to speculate. To the average American who has lived through the last four or five years of bull markets, speculation means easy money, and the idea has become so firmly instilled in the popular mind that it will take more than one disastrous crash to wipe...
...priests (4,000), natives in burnouses, 5,000 little singing children in white (many of them recent converts from Mohammedanism), Orientals, Europeans, 400 altars, 200 tons of wax candles, the Papal colors white and yellow everywhere, visits to the plaques and monuments of some 30 martyrs, the Papal Bull opening the Congress read in Latin and French then broadcast in Italian into radio microphones, Papal Legate Cardinal Lepicier speaking formally in Latin, informally in French, English, German, Italian, Spanish...
...their faces, and chop their houses in half when a family splits up, and plough, lacking a horse or an ox, with a cow in the traces, the Commune brings mowing machinery and a cream separator. Bold rustic humor finds rich material in the wedding of Fomka, the communal bull, for which the whole village turns out in Sunday clothes. Gathered in front of a barn gate, waiting the entry of Fomka's flower-wreathed bride, the crowd repeats "here she comes" but the first creature to come through the gate is a baby, the second a kitten, finally...