Word: franticness
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Today, of course, is the day of the annual frolic of the 25th reunion class at the Essex County Club in Manchester, with swimming, golf, softball, and drinks on tap. Meanwhile, the Class of 1912 will enjoy themselves in a less frantic manner at the Country Club in Brookline...
...frantic sell-off on the London Stock Exchange was even bigger (6.4%) than the famous one in 1938, just before Hitler delivered his ultimatum to Czechoslovakia (5.4%). From amidst the rubble, Stock Exchange Chairman Lord Ritchie advised small investors "to put their heads down and let the wind blow over them...
Later, back in Paris, their relationship was to provide a fascinating experiment in literature and life. Simone had befriended a student of hers; the girl came to live with them and eventually caught Sartre's attention. The odd menage a trots that resulted drove Simone frantic and offended their friends-not because it was irregular, but because they couldn't see what Sartre saw in the girl. Finally, to exorcise this succubus, Simone wrote her first successful novel, L'Invitee, which told how a young woman moved in on a sympathetic couple and so demoralized them that...
Parent to Strangers. The battle goes on across a broad chasm that Chatô, in his frantic private life, dug between himself and his children. In 1922 he married the daughter of a French architect living in Brazil; the two separated before his first son, Gilberto, was born. Three years later, Chatô married the daughter of a Brazilian banker; before they parted, his second son, Fernando, was born. Chatô saw to it that his two sons were well educated and well provided for, but beyond that he had little time for them. After one of his frequent quarrels...
...bride a dumb blonde virgin (Preshy Marker) who has completed her basic training as a courtesan. After a dilatory start, George Abbott's pell-mell direction crosscuts from the chaste to the chase. Pseudolus must foil all the males who are panting after dumb blonde virgins. Sharing the frantic antics are eunuchs, panderers, aging lechers, vainglorious soldiers, and defrocked vestals. For most of them, the stage-right bawdyhouse is home...