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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. |