Word: franticness
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...Rome, the Vatican looked with distaste at another kind of fashion problem: the adaptation of a cardinal's dress, complete with chain, pectoral cross and red biretta, as part of the line of Fontana Sisters, topflight Roman couturieres. "The frantic search for novelties," declared an official Vatican spokesman, "has deprived fashion in general, and Italian fashion in particular, of its artistic requirements. This frivolous imitation of a cardinal's attire is simply grotesque...
...this point the member just about abandons all hope of.coming out of the session with complete mental balance," North Dakota Congressman Usher Burdick wrote to his constituents about the frantic last days. "People who want this or that bill swarm the Capitol in person or flood the Congressmen with letters and telegrams, some even threatening members with political extinction unless ..." Amid the tumult and turmoil the Congress nevertheless got plenty of action (or inaction) on "this or that bill...
...delicacies in Robber Jim's rose-filled shanty, feels the first tug of happiness again. Fleeing the flood. Old Repent and Jim take Lovey back to the hilltop cemetery, there assuage her grief with a solemn second funeral for granny in a borrowed tomb. By the time her frantic parents find her, sorrow has thawed Lovey's heart, and love for Jim has helped her to reach again for life. Recognizing that even her parents, though foolish, are fond, Lovey is ready to leave the graveyard for the land of the living...
...other passes it took a piece of the officer's left hand, then of his left arm. Soon his big toe was dangling; a piece of his right heel was gone; his left calf was torn. At this moment, the officer sighted a passing ship. In his frantic efforts to attract attention, he did not notice that the shark was chewing on his thigh...
...Smith and 17 other American building experts on a Red-carpeted, 30-day junket through Soviet cities, gave them the best look at Soviet building that any U.S. group has ever had. Back in London last week the builders reported that Soviet construction moves at an impressively frantic pace, but that the workmanship is shoddy, the hand tools often primitive, the materials frequently second-rate...