Word: franticness
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Over-all there is a tremendous feeling of boisterousness and organized good sprit is that, while it may not jibe with the Cambridge ideal of a pick-up cocktail hour, is quite pleasant. If a weekend of frantic partying is exhausting, and if the excitement pales by Sunday morning, well, there is only one a year and it gets awfully cold and lonely in the woods of New Hampshire
...fines for reckless driving and bootlegging. Sheriff Hill, Bessemer police said, was to drive over to nearby Birmingham and pick Jones up. Jones's wife, knowing her husband's fear of Hill, collected enough money to pay the fines, but was unable to get Jones freed, despite frantic efforts. Sheriff Hill arrived at 2:30 a.m. and drove away with the handcuffed Jones. Mrs. Jones watched, afraid even to call out goodbye to her husband. She never saw Moses again. The undertaking attendant got his orders a few hours later, and the Government was fast running...
...customers coming into the stores. One store filled its window with a big placard: "These Ads Would Have Been in the Sunday Times." Many stores took to radio and TV to sell their wares. WCBS reported 17 new ad accounts, and WOR said that "our sales department is going frantic turning down money." All stations stepped up their news broadcasts as well as ads. NBC put sandwich men on the streets carrying signs: "Ask Me for the Latest News." When asked, the sandwich men tuned in portable radios to newscasts. NBC also stepped up its newscasts from...
...Poison-Ivied Walls" [Nov. 2]: so St. Trinian's is closed! I, for one, will miss the frantic antics of the little monsters. The "somewhere in England" address of St. Trinian's was Cambridge, and the "model" was the Cambridge and County High School for Girls...
...this purpose, Actor More invites on the spin a flashy young brunette (Kay Kendell) who. after a number of frantic breakdowns ("Better try a new flint!" hollers a passing motorist), begins some calculated conversation with Gregson's wife. "All Ambrose seems to think about are that silly old car and the other thing." The wife answers bleakly, "My husband only thinks...