Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panic has seized the Coolidge forces as a result of the primary contests in several states. The results have been symptomatic of a strong movement against the Administration in Washington...
Among the smaller preliminary meetings, one of the most active was that of the Federation of Settlements, before which Jane Addams, co-founder (1889) and head of Hull House (Chicago), arose to protest against loose public thinking. The American people "are in a panic," said she. They identify everything connected with "social work" with "Socialism," or more often with Bolshevism. She cited the case of a distinguished member of Congress who "had it on very good authority" that the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. constitution had been written by the late Dictator Lenin in Moscow...
...Economic Revolution: Panic of '73," Mr. Chase, Harvard 3, History...
...fate of "brown of Harvard," when it appeared in a revival a short time later as a musical comedy, was little happier. On this occasion, the resourceful undergraduate abandoned vegetables for alarm clacks, and pretty chorus ladies were driven off the stage in a panic by a barrage of time pieces. "Brown of Harvard" was thereafter permitted to slumber for several years, until at last a movie producer nosed...
...gurgling wonder of two months nakedness eventually loses itself in pink ribbons and embroidered flannel--but autocracy grows greater and becomes more formidable with the passing of the months. The tutorial system is doing just that. So the brotherly heart of the lecture system beats the double time of panic. And fear seeps its way into the antiquated manuscripts so long used by many a lecturer as notes for his daily disquisitions...