Word: franticness
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Lecturing his way across the Deep South, suave, wavy-haired Archduke Otto von Habsburg passed a night at Meridian, Miss.'s Lamar Hotel. After he left next day the management got a frantic letter from his secretary. Count von Degenfeld: would they please forward pronto to Austin, Tex. a nightshirt-snowy broadcloth and with Habsburg crest on the pocket-which His Royal Highness had left behind...
Forest Gillum, 56, of Omaha, wore a huge Willkie button through the Presidential campaign. When Willkie lost, exultant Democrat Abner Tunspall, 35, razzed Forest Gillum mercilessly. One day frantic Forest Gillum turned on his tormentor, cut his throat. Last week Gillum, pleading guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to two years in prison. Said the judge, "He just reached the end of his resistance...
...sized dairy herd and some hope of raising cash crops on the excellent land. But Sosua, too, has problems. The colony has been expensive, unproductive to date, and is now in the throes of reorganization. There are 124 unmarried colonists, only twelve unmarried women, and around the settlement stand frantic signs saying "We Want Women." The non-Spanish-speaking refugees are continually getting into small squabbles with the Dominicans. The colony needs more farmers and fewer intellectuals. Above all it needs some kind of agricultural miracle to raise it above the poorhouse economy of the Caribbean...
...technicality. To tease his wife, Mr. Smith puts off asking her to remarry him until she gets thoroughly fed up, tosses him out, refuses to marry him at all. Amusing to this point, Mr. and Mrs. Smith for the ensuing reels becomes a sly, exasperating chase, in which the frantic husband tries to recapture his wife, eventually (with the help of a pair of skis) succeeds...
Joyce made frantic efforts to get an exit visa so that he could take his family to Switzerland, scene of his World War I exile, birthplace of Ulysses. Thanks to influential friends (especially in the U. S. embassy), he finally procured a visa from Vichy. But the Swiss Government was fussier. At one point it refused to admit Joyce on the claim that he was a Jew. Then it demanded a $7,000 bond. The mayor of Zurich got the sum reduced to $3,500, which some Swiss friends got together. But on the day the Swiss entrance visa arrived...