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Updated: May 5, 2025

Piper was at ease again, exactly to be at ease under the circumstances would merely have proved him brightly inhuman but he looked as Oliver thought he might have on one of the Street's Black Mondays when only complete firmness and complete audacity in one could keep even the Commercial afloat at a time when the Stock Exchange had turned into a floor-full of well-dressed maniacs and houses that everyone had thought as solid as granite went to pieces like sand castles.

Stephen Vincent Benét - Young People's Pride : A Novel