Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Funniest scenes: Actor Howard shocking a stuffy breakfast group with a Shakespearean outburst on an improperly cooked kipper; Comic Blore trying to signal his master by frantic birdcalls, over determined competition from a nearby aviary...
...person out of every 50 in the U. S. last week bundled up too heavily, paid for a ticket, sat on a hard bench to watch 22 ardent young men in jerseys and leather helmets push an ellipsoidal ball back-&-forth within a 120-yd. space. Some went frantic at the results...
Like a divine enticement the sky ceased its outburst and lightened. Slowly the streets filled with a mob that increased its frantic, clamorous pace as it turned into Boylston Street and surged over the bridge. Above the turmoil hawkers cried about their display of feathers and tin footballs; the Salvation Army pleaded, and the ticket takers shouted a monotonous command...
Shao-hsiung from Nanking, and was rumored devoting all his time to frantic efforts to move $10,000,000 in treasure, his personal fortune, away from imminent capture by advancing Japanese troops. Meanwhile to Generalissimo Chiang there rushed from south China able General Li Tsung-ien, longtime War Lord partner of able Pai Tsung-hsi (TIME, Sept. 6). Eight years ago these two rebelled against Chiang because he was then unwilling to fight Japan as they thought China should. Last month General Pai became Chief of Staff to the Generalissimo. Last week after a final patching up of broken friendships...
...long held that the roots of true poetry are thrust deep in the traditions of centuries. His is not the frigid, classical view of the pedant, however, for he knows that poetry changes with the decades. But poetry to him is sacred, and in an age of frantic, formless compositions whose only worth lies in the white heat at which they are forged, Mr. Hillyer's poetry strikes a sure note. A sincere consideration of "A Letter to Robert Frest and Others" proves that Mr. Hillyer's poetry will stand the test of time...