Word: franticness
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Before long Ellen was reduced to a soft, whining, pleading, quivering mass of lust and fear-fear of losing Ed. Naturally he tired of this and left her, with studied brutality. Ellen made frantic, shameless, almost somnambulistic efforts to get him back, finally saw no escape from her agony but the night-black waters of Lake Michigan...
...bright-witted, toothy British youngsters last week raised merry hell with British-Canadian relations. In the first frantic days of the war Caroline and Eddie Bell were shipped off to Canada by their Oxford don father who admonished them that "you can't lay the flattery and gratitude on too thick-they love it." After a year in Canada and the U. S. the children couldn't stand it any longer, authored a book entitled Thank You Twice (Harcourt, Brace; $1). This time they heeded the admonition of their publisher to "pull no punches," said precisely what they...
...argument had ceased. Speaker Rayburn and his aides-tall, slack-jawed John McCormack of Massachusetts, the majority leader, and round-shouldered, wavy-haired Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, the whip-had done all they could. They had made frantic telephone calls to Democratic leaders in more than a dozen States, begging for additional pressure on reluctant members. Some Democratic State chairmen came to town, bringing plums and whips. In Vichy the Government had delivered itself to Hitler that afternoon. The U.S. Government had just renewed a warning to Japan. But against the bill to keep the U.S. Army under arms...
When the "Tree of Hope" (supposed to provide an immediate job for any actor who touched it) was knocked down on a Harlem street corner where it grew, Tap Dancer Bill Robinson joined the frantic crowd that tore it to splinters; trying to save it, he salvaged two chunky hunks. / / Dated to sing this week at a ball at wealthy Mrs. Herbert Shipman's plushy villa in Newport is her new neighbor, Gertrude Niesen, chatelaine of the Oelrichs mansion. / / Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 24 and twice a father, won his appeal to Washington for draft deferment as a family...
...over-clever, strangled in preciosity. At best their sinister quality is superb; at worst they deal melodramatically with jilted servants, out-of-season hotels, loveless homes, other social and psychological frigidities so overused that they might almost people a 20th-century, air-conditioned Castle of Otranto. In her almost frantic straining after artistry, Miss Bowen often frustrates her first-rate talent. But she is one of few writers alive who comes near mastering the difficult short-story form. Some stories...