Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress. First reaction of Congress, one of stunned amazement, did not last long. Second reaction was a frantic effort by Administration leaders to forestall a muckraking committee investigation. In the House, TVA appropriations are under the Military Affairs Committee, whose new chairman, Kentuckian Andrew Jackson May, is a crusty opponent of the TVA power program and willing to rake all the muck possible. Best thing Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could do under the circumstances was to trust his fellow Texan Maury Maverick, who had introduced a resolution calling for a joint House and Senate investigation of all charges...
...would laugh at. But millions of Britons including the Royal Family find her so amusing that one of her shows, Mr. Tower of London, had a continuous run in England of seven years (1918-25). Sheer animal vulgarity, including flea-scratching and grimaces, makes her a frantic success in British music halls. So while King George receives only some $550,000 per year, chiefly for being dignified, Miss Fields last year received a reputed $750,000 for being both undignified and vulgar. Four years ago, when the Manchester Guardian announced that the 4,000,000th Gracie Fields phonograph record...
Radio City Revels (RKO-Radio) is a fancy patch of cinematic needlework stretched over the hoop-la idea of a songwriter who works only in his sleep. Fanciest flight: frantic Song Thieves Jack Oakie and Milton Berle trying to cure Sleep-writer Bob Burns's insomnia by tossing a lamb back & forth across his bed. shortcutting by having him start counting at 1,000. Current & Choice...
...kicked over an oil lantern, thus starting the fire, seems to be of dubious historical accuracy. Nevertheless, Twentieth Century-Fox is privileged to rewrite history in the interests of drama, and drama it surely is which the film provides once the fateful lantern is upset. Streets are mobbed with frantic people; flames roar through the tightly-packed slums, ignite a gas tower, stampede the stock yards, and drive the whole South side into the Chicago River...
Grapevine sources meanwhile warned some hundreds of thousands of the 66,000,000 German people that something perhaps as bad as the Blood Purge might be coming, and these people were nearly frantic with anxiety as the hours crept on. Finally at 10 p. m. the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment broadcast on a nation-wide hookup for all Germans to "stand by." They stood by for two agonizing hours until the crashing announcement came...