Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again for the last three months, was scheduled to speak on Sunday afternoon. When he had done so, it was apparent that if the U. S. press and the U. S. Congress had forgotten him, there were plenty of radio listeners who had not. Roared the frantic radio priest against the Reorganization Bill: "It will mean that it's none of the people's business how their tax moneys are used. . . . [It] sets up a financial dictatorship in the person of the President. . . . The immediacy of the danger insists that before tomorrow noon your telegram...
...Spring: Its Nature and Manifestations" was the subject of a short but frantic survey by the CRIMSON of several local institutions for young females. The survey was conducted yesterday in Staff Car No. 2, a snappy Ford Phaeton calculated (and rightly so) to catch the feminine...
...made safe by locking up hundreds, including the Duke of Windsor's Jewish ear specialist, Professor Heinrich Neumann and Vienna's Aryan Mayor Richard Schmitz. New laws on all sorts of subjects, including complicated economic regulations, were being promulgated by simply reading them over the radio. Frantic Viennese businessmen strained to catch each word. What had been the Austro-German frontier was swept away, thus abolishing customs duties; German-Austrians learned the economy of their country had been meshed with the Göring Four-Year Plan (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936); and April...
...conceivable effect on any given spin of the wheel, the chances against the black turning up once more at any stage of the tun were exactly the same as at any other time-i.e., 19 to 18, or a little more than even.* The failure of the frantic red-players to realize this gave the house a profit of several million francs...
...surprising. But it was news last week when one of the parts was offered to antic, woolly-wigged Comedian Harpo Marx. The proffered role: "an immobile figure plunged into the depths of total despair, who then emerges from his state of hallucination and goes into paroxysms of the most frantic choreographic delirium...