Word: quiverings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unceremonious squiggle of President Hoover's pen last week made the Glass-Steagall bill law. Its enactment sent a strong new quiver of hope and confidence through the nation's banking nerves. Now the Federal Reserve System could lend money to its members (in groups of five) on assets which before were ineligible for rediscount. Now it could substitute U. S. securities for gold and commercial paper as coverage for its currency. With the gold thus released, it could withstand foreign raids on the dollar or print more paper money...
...accident a Manhattan physician. Dr. Lucy Du Bois Porter Sutton, 40, has discovered a quick palliative if not a certain cure for St. Vitus's Dance, hideous childhood disease. Victims twitch, quiver, quake and grimace uncouthly. The posturings resemble a grotesque dance like the oldtime "shimmy" and "Charleston." During the ignorant Middle Ages victims of the disease were taken to "dance" before images of St. Vitus, patron of comedians.* It was believed that those who danced before St. Vitus would be certain of good health during the following year. Hence the general name for the disease. The medical term...