Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frantic obstetrician and an excited policeman chased through Boston last week, expecting disaster when they caught up with Mrs. Rubina Hartman. A few hours after giving birth to a girl in City Hospital, Mrs. Hartman, 33, had dressed, visited friends, then gone to her home in suburban Roxbury. Nurses found the infant lying alone in Mrs. Hartman's hospital bed. No mania impelled her, the mother averred when doctor and policeman reached her. She felt well; she had work to do at home; she was going to do it; the hospital, she knew, would look after the baby...
...passion to see Communism come. Driving through Belgrade last week, Smartest Little Statesman Benes knew that, as Pertinax said, his visit "bids fair to mark an important turning point in the history of Central Europe." By his mere presence he generated in the Skupshtina (Yugoslav Chamber of Deputies) frantic criticism of Premier Stoyadinovich as a potential wrecker of the Little Entente...
...Europe in a $15,200 silver-finished Maybach-Zeppelin automobile. On their last night in Paris they got home to their hotel toward dawn, were off next day for The Netherlands in their Maybach without realizing what was in the rumble seat. As the great car shot across France, frantic telephone calls from Paris strove to intercept it and at the frontier barrier Her Royal Highness learned that her sleepy Dutch maid had bundled into the rumble $10,000 worth of gowns which had come to her "on approval" and which she had intended to leave behind to be sent...
While his disappearance is the subject bf frantic New York-to-Hollywood telephone calls, Duncan luxuriates in the simple life at the Schwartzes', drinking water instead of whiskey before breakfast and sleeping in a daybed with Papa Schwartz. When Camille misapprehends the purpose of his lovemaking, he finds himself engaged to her. His extrication and the return of Camille to the husky footballer who really loves her provide further complications which, although not unfalteringly hilarious, disclose an unexpected flair for swashbuckling satire on the part of reedy Actor George Curzon, who last year played a somewhat insipid Parnell...
...frantic friends of the patients, yearing that they will wake up with the Mumps any morning, Professor Bock was highly encouraging. The epidemic is apparently on the wane with only one case being reported yesterday, while four were confined on Sunday. In addition, anyone who has previously had Mumps is almost immune from a reoccurrence of the disease...