Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprising how fresh the Herald Tribune sage's articles remain when they are issued, frozen inside book-covers. You turn the pages from the panic mood of January, 1933, when Mr. Lipmann joined his well-modulated call to the rest of those who demanded swift executive action; through the decisive March days, through the tumult round banks and public works and beer, through the birth of the blue eagle. Here is Mr. Lippman praising the emergency legislation in March, 1933, growing warier in the late spring, doubting carnestly by July, when he sees "moral coercion by means of the blue...
...Paris for months and years the franc has been repeatedly hammered by lack of confidence which has ebbed & flowed like an erratic financial tide. Each time panic was in the air, huge shipments of French gold have been piled aboard transatlantic steamers and trans-Channel planes. Such "flights from the franc" have more than once been at a faster rate than they were last week -but with that obstinacy which is a leading French characteristic, Cabinet after Cabinet in Paris refused to yield and cheat possessors of francs by reducing the value of the money in their hands until...
...something like a League panic, sincere Geneva friends of Democracy did their best to temporize, talked of referring matters to The Hague Court-anything for delay. When short-sighted Turkish Foreign Minister Tewtik Rushtu Aras first sat down he did not notice that in the new League building had been hung a magnificent antique tapestry depicting Emperor Charles V driving the Turkish barbarians in confusion from Vienna in the year 1529. When through his thick-lensed spectacles Dr. Aras at last saw this he raised a shrill rumpus and the League, as a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Mustafa Kamal Atat...
...submerged memories of warfare and its intolerable shocks and self-lacerating failures to achieve the impossible. By daylight each mind was a sort of aquarium for the psychopath to study. . . . But by night each man was back in his doomed sector of a horror-stricken Front Line where the panic and stampede of some ghastly experience was re-enacted among the livid faces of the dead...
...economical, with more than a suggestion of the exactness and finality of some of the verses of T. S. Eliot. But in Going Southward, from which the lines above are quoted, the images are tropical and luxurious, the racing, unbroken, drumlike beat of the poem effectively suggesting the panic and horror of the world...