Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around-the-world luxury liner is wrecked. Out of the panic of passengers and the frantic energy of officers and men, Author Herm draws a subtle analysis of the emotion of fear...
...Koussevitzky asked the audience to sit down, be quiet. The billows of smoke that were gushing out on the stage and swirling among the imperturbable musicians, were only from a fire in a rubbish chute, which was quickly controlled. When a friend congratulated Koussevitzky not only for averting a panic but for keeping his tempo precise and unhurried through it all, Koussevitzky answered: "Ah! But tempo is tempo and tranquillity is tranquillity...
...private suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1905. His first wife, Julia Graves of Aurora, Ill. had died three years before. His bride was 28, California-born, the divorced wife of a picture dealer. They went to the Victorian house with the gingerbread façade shortly after the panic of 1907. There for nearly two decades while he ruled the destiny of Steel, she entertained the kings of industry, the royalty of Europe...
This is the signal for Nathan Rothschild's greatest coup. First he extracts from the Allies a promise to give Jews citizenship. Then he agrees to lend them all the Rothschild money. On the morning of Waterloo Rothschild is in a bad way. There is a panic on the London stock exchange. If the market breaks completely. Rothschild will be bankrupt. He pops on to the floor, places in his buttonhole a flower given him by Mrs. Rothschild (Mrs. Arliss) and orders his agents to buy. Presently, there arrives from the battlefield a message that Napoleon has lost. When...
...still carries on at 70 branches throughout New York. For the first 100 years of its existence Bank of New York remained the biggest institution in the city. Like other Manhattan banks it occasionally moved out to Greenwich Village in the country during periodic yellow fever plagues. It weathered panic after panic, including that of 1857 when Harper's Weekly wrote: "Not for many years - not in the lifetime of most men who read this paper - has there been so much grave and deep apprehension. ... Of our troubles no man can see the end." Last week this venerable institution...