Word: franticness
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Probably the most consistent thing about Smith is the way the girls dress. From Sunday night through Friday afternoon, the Smith student dresses with abandon that seems almost frantic. Skirts, except for a brief period around dinner time, are as rare as television in Tibet. Instead, she wears pedal pushers, or, if still in touch with an older tradition, dungarees. Above the waist, she will wear sweater, blouse, or shirt--anything, so long as it is sufficiently aged. If she's a senior, she can throw an academic gown over the whole costume when it normally would need washing...
...urgent telephone calls poured in on the sponsors. One call, from Brazil, was relayed by President Getulio Vargas through the Brazilian embassy in Washington.† However the long-term hopes for Krebiozen turn out, the short-term result of the Chicago announcement will be merely intensified grief. Thousands of frantic pleas will have to be turned down, since 1) the drug has not been made available for general use; 2) conservative doctors may balk at using it until its chemical nature, safety and method of manufacture are more clearly understood...
...when Barbara was only five years old, that frantic, fascinating period of her life came abruptly to an end. Designer Bel Geddes and his wife separated. From the turmoil of the family brownstone, Barbara and her sister were transplanted to the quiet of a house in Millburn, N.J. (pop. 13,400). Partly because of Belle's retiring nature and partly because of their newly straitened circumstances, their life was cloistered even for life in a suburban town...
Cause for Alarm! Loretta Young as a frantic housewife whose life suddenly depends on getting a letter out of the mails (TIME...
Cause for Alarm! Loretta Young as a frantic housewife whose life suddenly depends on getting a letter out of the mails (TIME...