Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Perry briefly outlined the unfortunate differences which arise in a period of reconstruction. The consideration of a national policy has caused a rupture in our thought but on Memorial Day we should put aside all differences of opinion. "All democracies", he said, "are easily panic stricken and our nineteenth century machinery is not sufficient to express our twentieth century feeling". He said that we did not know how to spell the word "world court". "It sounds too complicated for us. Lincoln was generations ahead of his time in thinking of the good of humanity as a whole...
...suitable moment, be ready to take part by the side of its allies, with whom they share a practical interest in this question, which they have no intention to abandon." Surely this is the most unkindest cut of all, and the mental peace of Germany has changed to panic...
...what his Majesty's government might reasonably have expected." This blow, coming together with another fantastic report from the Reichsbank alchemists which has raised the total of paper currency to nearly seven trillions of marks, has sent the mark down to 48,500 per dollar. In the general panic German are making startling confessions. They admit that they have received what they might have expected, they are even beginning to see that they must...
Blanche Bates: "While I was acting at the Broad Street Theatre in Philadelphia a fire panic almost started. Said I to the audience: ' There's no fire in this theatre, and what the hell would you do if there were ? Hold up your hands, all who are going to stay.' And they held them...
Died. Abbas Hilmi Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey under Sultans Abdul Hamid and Mohamet V, in Vienna. In command of a division during the Balkan War in 1912, he tried to stop the panic among his men at Kirkkilisseh by having them shot down...