Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scoop by Sports Editor Davis J. Walsh who had made a special trip to Ann Arbor to get the latest information. The information was that Coach Kipke had not talked to Malcolm Farmer about coaching the Yale football team. The Walsh story caused a nation-wide sports page panic. The Chicago Tribune ran a banner headline on an A. P. story which contained the first news about an alumni committee appointed to find a new football coach. Five of the committee apparently favored hiring Kipke. The Tribune brought the name of Yale's famed Benefactor Edward S. Harkness into...
...late Sime Silverman, founder-publisher of Variety, helped popularize such technical theatre talk as "wow," "panic," and "flop" but it never got far from Broadway. H. L. Mencken coined expressions like "Bible Belt," "booboisie," "Yahwah," which became part of the language of his imitative admirers but not slang. Cartoonist T. A. Dorgan ("Tad") put a little dog in his pictures who barked "balogna"; the term was not, like some of Tad's, his own. "Blessed event," "phttf and "middle-aisle" by Winchell are too conscious to be slang; "whoopee," old when he first used it, is already obsolete. "Bugs...
...their minds, excited demonstrators, attendants, executives, engineers and mannikins swarmed over & under, in & out of each & every exhibit. Studebaker had golden girls and a golden queen who chanted: "Take a magic key and win a Studebaker-given away every day." On the first day the Studebaker queen was panic-stricken when her royal robes became unhooked in the back. De Soto put on a marionet shew, depicting the history of transportation since the birth of Hernando De Soto, Spanish explorer. Hudson's Terraplane offered spectators playlets including one involving an ingenue, her weary mother, a Terraplane salesman...
...their secret was their own. Going to the Government bureaus to collect their prize money, many winners loitered for a time with the crowd pretending to wait for news, finally eased in through the door. When they emerged, they covered their faces with their hands to foil photographers, raced panic-stricken for cover. When 16 Frenchmen became franc millionaires (1,000,000 francs = $64,600), most of them stayed anonymous...
...first year he grossed $1,000. Then he bought and auctioned a lease in Stone-bluffs. Okla., netted $45,000, his first wealth. Just before the panic of 1921, he went to Europe. Six months later he returned to find himself $400,000 in debt. It took him three years to pay it back. By 1929 he was once more on his way, able to pay a seven-figured sum for a third interest in his father's oil properties...