Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time "Silver Dollar" Tabor counted his fortune at $100,000,000, was reputed the largest landowner in the world. Ten years later came demonetization of silver and panic. Tabor, in the belief that his silver mines would produce unending wealth, had squandered or gambled away some $12,000,000 in 14 years. Now he was ruined. Followed five years of humiliating poverty-"Baby Doe" stripped of her gorgeous gowns and jewels, "Silver Dollar" working occasionally with pick & shovel. In 1898 he was appointed Denver's postmaster, held the job a year. died. But only last week came...
...possible risk of their lives War Minister Hayashi and Navy Minister Osumi negatively replied: "Such is not the duty of the fighting forces!" They dumped responsibility in the lap of Education Minister Matsuda who, with panic in his face, vowed, "We are trying our very best so to educate students that they will not entertain any such theory...
...PANIC, A PLAY IN VERSE-Archibald MacLeish-Houghton Mifflin...
...behind when they go to town. To most moderns, poetic drama means selfconscious, little-theatre stuff-&-nonsense. Ambitious Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador), seeing no good reason for the modern notion that Poetry is by nature a bad actor, has tried his hand at a verse-play. His first attempt. Panic, took him 16 months to write.* Playgoing readers will find it an exciting experiment, will hope Author MacLeish's example may attract some others...
...freedom of expression and of publication--is fundamental. Minorities, if we are to avoid crystallization and decay, must be allowed to criticize existing conditions and in turn to submit their proposals to criticism, so that the evil or the unworkable may be rejected and the valuable utilized. The defensive panic of reactionaries, rather than any communistic agitation, is the greatest existing menace to democracy and free capitalism...