Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stalls. Ladies in sparkling décolleté who had never smelt anything worse than an onion, found their gowns and hair suddenly reeking with a liquid that stank like putrid eggs. Gentlemen in evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs burst around them. Amid frantic pandemonium the élite of Frankfurt rushed stumbling forth pellmell. Meanwhile the good and pious in the gallery-having thrown their last stench bomb-grouped about their clergyman and sang a triumphant hymn...
...great loggerhead turtle is posed in frantic flight in an exhibition case of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Its neck is stretched far forward; its flippers beat the water; its runty tail sticks straight out behind. Driving after the turtle are several varieties of sharks-leathery bodies, cold, piggish eyes, blunt snouts all straining towards the prey...
...Professor Einstein, frantic with the imminence of death from heart trouble, has been intensely working on two new theories corollary to relativity. One he has just submitted to the Berlin Academy of Science, for study. The other is yet unfinished. Last summer he spent at Lubeck, Baltic sea resort. Last week he was in Berlin, reasoning a few hours each day in a small, secluded room atop his apartment house. His malady has made him annoyingly nervous and querulous. In his wife's words, if someone suddenly disturbs him, he screams, shrieks and raves. Then he calms down...
...party of Rumanian cadets had been on the local-express. They burst in the station door. One, a telegraphist, seized the Morse key, clicked frantic appeals for help. Within half an hour a wrecking train had steamed up. Meanwhile cadets worked mightily to extract wounded passengers from crumpled wooden cars, some of which had begun to burn...
Sculptor Lukeman felt inclined to sue Mr. Venable. He said he had completed one third of the central group of three horses and riders for $180,000, that he could complete the rest within six months for $75,000. With the frantic ire of the artist whos work is criticized before it is finished, he called attention to the fact that most of General Lee was still in rough outline. Replying to Mr. Venable's threatening assertion that he had turned the rights over to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sculptor Lukeman continued: " The Daughters ... are now shoulder...