Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight thousand pitiless brewery workers went on strike in Berlin whose populace became exposed to a beer famine. Frantic efforts were made by cafe, restaurant and beer hall proprietors to secure large quantities of Miinchner and Wurzburger from Bavaria and elsewhere to tide their beer-drinkers over tha crisis...
Meanwhile, the rest of the nine was finding its path a rocky one. Several games that should have been won were lost despite Coach Davidson's frantic juggling of the line-up. Then Howard and Ullman because eligible and were put in at shortstop and second base, Captain Zarakov moving over to third. Later Tobin moved from catcher to first base and Duchin went behind the plate, strengthening both positions. Durant and then de Becker, also removed from probation, bolstered the shaky outfield, and Coach Davidson had a team...
...snake-like arms. But he wrenches himself loose before the lights go out. After he flees, shaken in everything but his honor, the hotel burns down and the incandescent lady with it, perhaps from spontaneous combustion. The athlete then faces the problem of either enlightening his friend, driven frantic by his wife's inexplicable disappearance, or of leaving him ignorant, anguished but resting comfortably in his illusions about his wife...
Wearied at last of this outlawry of love, they turn to less frantic dalliance. The wife seeks balm of Gilead in the arms of a theatrical manager; the husband pins his hopes for philandering on a street walker. But they miss their erotic apoplexy. Eventually they drift back to each other, into the maelstrom. They must return to the bonds of holy acrimony. Marriage, they find, is the penalty for those in love...
Although the occupants of the motor launch "Class of '92" could not see anything wrong with the steam launch "John Harvard" as the Latter boat lay stranded, in the middle of the Charles, and thought the frantic waving of Coach Newell and the others in a boat a part of some joke, closer inquiry disclosed that the smoke-stack of the steam launch had blown off and sunk to the bottom of the river. The "John Harvard" was no longer able to keep up team, and lay drifting helplessly in the middle of the Charles. The boat was towed back...