Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must trust ourselves and net raise insuperable barriers in a moment of panic. Opponents of prohibition tell us that the lamp of liberty burns but dimly in our land. However that may be, it burns, and we must guard what light there is, guard what remains of our old right, the freedom of the press. That Liberty's torch be not smothered by the cloak of Fear, we must stand our ground and be our own censors...
...Amid panic the statesmen-diners fled to the restaurant cellars. The students, tramping in through shattered windows, seized the restaurant piano, tables, chairs and chandeliers-flung all into the street for a barricade against the police...
...could not believe their eyes. And yet, there it was in print, in black & white, squarely before them on their own breakfast table, next to the cream pitcher. "Surely," cried one citizen, "Coolidge will act promptly. This situation cannot go on. Great Scot, this is the beginning of a PANIC. We'll all be bankrupt. Why, I always thought the house of Morgan was founded on rock...
Closing reports last night from both State and Wall Streets indicated something akin to a serious financial panic following the rush of Lampoon supporters to cover bets which apparently were placed in a moment of mistaken confidence. Rumors that Philip Hichborn '29 would replace the veteran Bob Lampoon in the box for the humorists, and that V. O. Jones '28, versatile CRIMSON tosser, would be unable to play are believed to have caused the rash action of the Lampoon rooters. Word got around yesterday, however, that the CRIMSON is firmly resolved to maintain the integrity of its football traditions...
...terrified and superstitious population touched the apogee of panic, last week, when a rumor spread that Divine Vengeance had fallen because of a specific and impious act of the Bulgarian Parliament. This act was to meet and discuss the project of a U. S. loan on a Holy Day, namely last Good Friday...