英语词汇wallstreet panic的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	wallstreet panic
词源	Wallstreet Panic. Among the most humorous names in American fiction. William Faulkner created or recorded the unusual name in his novel The Hamlet (1940). As Ech Snopes explains therein: “. . . [We] figured if we named him Wall- street Panic it might make him get rich like the folks that run that Wall Street panic [in 1928].” Other humorously named Faulkner characters, all from his Snopes family, include Ad- miral Dewey and Montgomery Ward. See snopesian; sartoris.
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