Word: blistering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smith was especially hampered by a fractured leg which he suffered last year and which was paining him. A blister also added to his troubles together with the slippery footing of the ice covered road...
After a few warning twinges, the glossy blister of high prices in the New York stock market burst explosively at the prick of the rail merger ruling at Washington (see p. 28). Widespread pain was experienced by the speculating body public, as leading rail, motor, industrial and chain-store stocks oozed out 10, 20, 30, even 50, even 80 points, even 100 points.* The nerves of finance carried the anguish to distant cities...
...days it continued-days worse than Rich Men's Panic (1901) and the dark April and May of 1920. Wall Street volume-of-trading records, set only last fall by the rising of the blister, went glimmering. The new figure was 3,734,031 shares traded, in March 3. The ticker was 52 minutes late...
Reaction came sharply. What had happened was "too awful" and the banks rushed out to support their customers. Bears licked the blister better by covering their short sales...
There "she lived in such style as to eclipse her 'neighbor George' (the King) in St. James's, across the way." There she died in 1744, aged 85, as her physicians attempted to "blister" her, vowing "I won't be blistered...