Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deputy Chief Caldwell of the Lincoln Square Fire Station opposite Memorial Hall declared that it was illegal to lock the doors of lecture rooms unless the exits are equipped with panic-bars...
Students last night named Charles H. Taylor '21, Henry Lea Professor of Medieval History, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, as the worst offenders. A quick investigation of New Lecture Hall, where Taylor's course, History 1, is given showed no panic-bars are provided. Many students, especially of History 1, were willing to agree that New Lecture Hall was one of the worst fire-traps in Cambridge...
...pity, a young Austrian soldier (Albert Lieven) takes to calling on the crippled daughter (Lilli Palmer) of a wealthy old baron (Ernest Thesiger). She falls in love; he doesn't. She confesses her passion; he gallantly flees in a panic. Her doctor"(Sir Cedric Hardwicke) warns the soldier that if the girl's hope of winning him dies, she will...
When pity finally traps him into becoming engaged, he gets into another panic and runs away again. But while running it occurs to him that compassion is the better part of pity. He returns to make up, but finds that the despairing lady has already thrown herself over a cliff...
Curtain Up. Backstage, 140 actors, dancers, chorus girls, stagehands and all-purpose worriers went about their work in a state of controlled panic. In the dingy dressing rooms, the perfumed atmosphere was intolerably tense. A sudden gleam came into the dull eyes of 375 backstage spotlights. Almost imperceptibly, the curtain rustled up. On one side of the stage was a brass bed containing a mother & child. On the other side, a mixed chorus in turn-of-the-century costumes began to sing...