Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish fear. But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage. . . . Through the throng just then there thundered, Than upon his tawny steed. Here the crowd went wild with clamor, dauntless courage met their need; Cameleer charging onward, urged his camel to high speed. Elephant raging, saw his coming, cowed, careened and fled in haste, Trumpeted...
...Since the panic last November conditions have grown steadily worse, despite the Pollyanna statements of the Administration and the misleading reports of its members. . . . However blameless the President may have been for the initial panic, it is most unfortunate that added disappointment should have come from his persistent coloring of real conditions. . . . Securities and commodities are lower than ever and the unemployment situation is steadily becoming worse. . . . The President issued no word of warning of the catastrophe, though after it he was glib in his explanation of the why and where fore...
Vexed by his losses at Monte Carlo, an indignant player in sleek evening clothes rose from one of the roulette tables last week, extracted a hand grenade from his tailcoat pocket, tossed it onto the wheel where the little ball spun, then quickly made his escape amid panic...
...served as a field surgeon in General Lee's army; his mother was the daughter of a Southern planter. Bernard Mannes Baruch went north as a young man, became famed for his market operations, his floating of the great Goldfield Consolidated Mining Co. during the panic of 1907 and, later, for his services as Chairman of the War Industries Board. Memories of this last occupation gave him material for a speech before the Boston Chamber of Commerce last week. While of late he has been devoting himself to the development of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., as a State health...
...Chamber of Commerce went into session in Washington last week for its 18th annual meeting. Gravely because, first quarter over, Business has not started the long march from Depression to Prosperity, merely marks time, seems dazed at its narrow escape from a drop into the sheer chasm of Panic. Well might the businessmen assembled last week have remarked, together with the venerable Commercial & Financial Chronicle: "Verily, trade and business in this country have undergone great shrinkage...