Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calm the initial panic produced last week by Stalin's new order, nervous Soviet citizens were assured that this time the Government will be more lenient in probing for enemies. Also, whereas Red passports have previously been for three years, the new ones will be issued for five years, a major Soviet boon...
...Into Panic's teeth Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming threw this information: "Infantile paralysis cases reported to the U. S. Public Health Service to date: North Carolina, 558; Virginia, 473; District of Columbia, 37; Massachusetts, 389; New York, 941. The District of Columbia, Virginia and North Carolina have apparently passed the seasonal peak...
...until after her mother's death to plan her divorce. Then her lover died. Harry Lehr had quieted down, showed symptoms of acute melancholia before the War, which finally put an end to his way of life. He grew more & more morose; his mind slowly failed; he became panic-stricken at the thought of his despised wife's leaving him. She accepted an impossible situation, gave him money, buried herself in War work. Upon his death he left her, as one last malicious joke, all his "houses, bonds . . . carriages, yachts, motor cars," except those...
Five notable results of President Roosevelt's silver purchasing policy have been: 1) a panic in China, 2) temporary dislocation of the Mexican banking system, 3) enrichment of a number of speculators at home & abroad, 4) accumulation of an enormous hoard of bullion which the Treasury may never be able to sell and 5) booming bar trade in all the mining camp saloons of the Mountain States...
Lily became conscious of her love with panic. When she found herself talking with affected girlishness she was shocked, but felt queerly exalted and lightheaded: "It was not entirely a pleasant sensation, having in it something of the faint excitement and distress that accompanies flying in dreams." Ackerly, a sea captain who had been drafted to do character bits, possessed a quality that Lily considered secretive glamour but which U. S. readers may put down as plain British dullness. Lily was finally ready to run away with him. But after one look at the dingy, unromantic week-end quarters...