Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This vital danger we are trying to meet in the program before you. Fortunately, we are surrounded by old friends and allies, and so we can consider this issue without panic, and calmly plan the measures for developing a scheme of defense that, however remote may be the possibility of danger, is none the less necessary to our national security and status. Let us not brood morbidly over remote perils, but, rather, take a sustained interest in the problem of defense which must be faced...
There is no danger from earthquakes in Boston, according to Professor Daly, "Panic is the only danger," he declared. "In theatres and halls heads can be protected from falling plaster by the hands. There will be no falling walls. A stampede for the door will be the only cause of loss of life from New England earthquakes...
...Panic. "I well remember, after the panic of 1907, when my father was telling me the story of those anxious and agitated days, during which I had been absent, that he said, by way of summing up what he had been telling...
Even the damp frigidity of a Cambridge winter cannot restrain the university from breaking forth into fresh excitement. The newest panic is that of red "circles". Opponents of the New Order are already punning violently upon "circle" and "square", and the League for the Purity of American Humor is reported to be stalking the impious punster. Certain irreverent youths have suggested that this is a sewing-circle plot to clothe unprotected females in red flannel. It is plain that by all those, amused or amusing, who will watch the growth of these clandestine, colorful clubs, the Young People's Socialist...
Then, sitting up in his bed, he read to them a statement in which he categorically proved that the opposition newspapers had either exaggerated the importance of Communist activities or had fabricated reports to cause panic among the people. He drew a long and dismal picture of the disastrous effects which such scare news was causing: withdrawal of money from banks, runs on provision stores, expatriation of capital...