Word: franticness
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...drive. From this chariot there stepped swiftly and lightly none other than the gifted wife of Sir John Lavery. 'Painting! But what are you hesitating about? Let me have a brush-the big one.' Splash into the turpentine, wallop into the blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette . . . and then several large, fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas. Anyone could see that it could not hit back. . . . The sickly inhibitions rolled away. I seized the largest brush and fell upon my victim with Berserk fury. I have never felt...
State of Emergency. Frantic pleas brought Governor Harry F. Kelly flying home from the Governor's conference in Columbus, Ohio. He called out 1,000 state troops, rushed in 500 state police, asked Fort Custer for 1,000 military police, and decreed a "state of emergency" for Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, which include and surround Detroit. Under the decree, all bars and restaurants were shut, a 10 p.m. curfew established. Still the rioting continued. Finally, after a proclamation by Franklin Roosevelt ordering the rioters to disperse, Federal troops marched in, cleared the streets...
...Duce's worries, but it was the most chronic. A people whose "nationalism does not whisper because their country is small," the Albanians had never accepted the Fascist conquest of 1939. Now patriot resistance, fanned by new hope, was mounting. It could be measured by Rome's frantic hunt for a popular puppet leader. For Prime Minister in Tirana Mussolini chose tricky, turncoat Ekrem Libohova, once ex-King Zog's Foreign Minister. This was Albania's fourth "government...
...galleries were even more frantic than usual, as the college basketball season drew toward its close this week. This year, for the first time in the game's history, there is a real national championship at stake. In former years every section of the U.S. touted its pet team, prayed for a bid to the National Collegiate A.A. play-offs or the National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden. This year the winners of these two events will meet in an April play-off in the Garden, for the benefit of the Red Cross...
Consolidated Timber Co., a cooperative formed by the owners of Tillamook, started this frantic race with the insects before the embers had cooled, poured more than $3,500,000 into building logging railroads, highways and lumberjack camps. By the end of last year they had salvaged 3.5 billion feet (Tillamook timber built most of the new West Coast shipyards...