Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anxious to see you because the country is passing through a panic crisis which must be combatted. The falsest reports are circulating. Yesterday it was a raid at Amiens, where no raids were made. Today it is a story of stolen machine guns at Longuyon, equally untrue. What is serious is that this neurosis is spreading daily. Foreigners are growing anxious...
Beauty vanishes, beauty passes. Marble blackens in the earth; songs fade out of the minds of men; wind and damp loosen paint from canvas. Were this not so, there would be no poets, nor would there have been a panic in Milan 16 years ago. Cause of that panic was the fact that a certain Prof. Cavenaghi had discovered that Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Last Supper was crumbling away. The immortal paint was drying from the canvas. Cavenaghi restored it. Recently another Professor, one Silvestri, noticed while dusting the picture that many parts untouched by Cavenaghi were...
...tape they paraded, left foot, right foot; point after point, up went steels, up went rails, up went sterling. On Saturday, a record was reached. The trading done on that day was only once exceeded in the history of the Exchange -on a Saturday, and that once in panic-time-the silver panic of 1906. It was not until 20 minutes after twelve noon, normal closing time, that the demented ticker, chattering, jabbering, scribbled the word "Close," marking the end of the day's operations, of a week of nationwide buying...
...Forgan was widely and affectionately known as "J.B." and "The Old War Horse." His humor was kindly, his sense of justice, honesty and discipline that of a stern Scot. Testimonials from his friends reflected the gratitude Chicago owed him for his services during 30 years of prosperity and panic...
...bales. When, on Sept. 16, the Government revised its estimate, the condition figure had fallen to 55.4, and accordingly the new crop estimate was placed at 12,596,000 bales. The sudden cut of 191,000 bales in the estimates, when announced, precipitated a small-sized "bear panic" on the Cotton Exchange, wherein a good-sized "short interest" hastened to cover at smartly rising prices...