Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rummiest War." In the United King dom authorities made frantic efforts to keep evacuated children from returning to town for Christmas, and literary bigwigs wrote persuasively in the press. "This Christmas, coming as it does in the rummiest war the world has ever known, will be a test of our common sense," wrote Novelist J. B. Priestly. "We are fighting bewildered, angry, hysterical men, who at any moment may bark out orders to rain death and destruction on this country. . . . Therefore, let the children stay [in the country]. . . . It is better to spend one Christmas Eve longing for them than...
...destruction with the principle of creation." Readers found a few contributions (notably a peasant tragedy by the late, great Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, a passage about a prostitute-waif from The Black Book by the English Writer Lawrence Durrell) that seemed creative indeed, many more that seemed fashionably frantic in technique as in content. A section on "American design" was atrociously badly designed. Question: does editorship of such a publication demand merely a generous ear, or also an exacting...
...Frantic for fear that Mr. Arnold's bombardment would smash their unions, or break a way for C.I.O. raiders, for weeks the A. F. of L. leaders have been strengthening their defenses. Shouted A. F. of L. Counsel Joseph Padway six weeks ago: "God deliver us from college professors!" Serenely Mr. Arnold went about his business, confident that this time he had victory by the tail...
...awful night of August 31, the eve of war, when diplomats were making frantic 59th-minute appeals, a wealthy Londoner telephoned his brother in the South of France. Would the brother and his wife like to use the Londoner's private plane to get home? No, thanks, came the answer. For the brother's wife, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, dislikes airplanes even if they belong to the King of England...
Last week, as the first bombs bit into Warsaw pavements, Polish doctors had made no plans for the epidemic of war. Air raid casualties were picked up like victims of everyday auto accidents, packed into ambulances, rushed to overcrowded hospitals. Frantic radio appeals were broadcast for blood donors, volunteer ambulance drivers, nurses and stretcher bearers...