Word: franticness
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Quinette is a half-educated man of action. Vorge is a frantic would-be sophisticate, a man of thought. Yet their pathology is the same. Vorge has only to hear of Quinette in connection with a woman's mysterious disappearance to assume (on no grounds) his guilt. He seeks him out and, in a state of mind half parlor-game, half maniacal sincerity, woos him as a "Master," a "Dark Angel," the modest herald of Rimbaud's "heyday of assassination." He drives the tricky, mousy little murderer nearly witless with hypnosis and fear. Inevitably...
There was nothing for Axel to do but stare, big-eyed, at the Nazi war machine and wait. In the U. S., Father & Mother Andersen spent four months sending frantic wires to Washington, asking for help. They appealed at last to the International Red Cross in Geneva...
...that point a prospective customer showed up with an offer of $800-if he liked the way Dottie acted. He wanted a demonstration on the river. The frantic Douglases wrote to the New York Central Railroad. The bridge, formerly a draw, had long since been permanently spiked down. Over it the Central ran such crack trains as the Twentieth Century Limited...
...Little Chickadee." Closest to a really uproarious sequence is the capture of bank bandits Repulsive Grogan and Filthy McSnatch by the paunchy recluse of the Black Pussy Cafe. Thereby W.C. becomes local constable and straight Grade B Mack Sennett horseplay drags on and on. Saloon melees and a frantic automobile pursuit over mountain goat paths give the bulbous-nosed comedian a chance to display all his old along with a very few new tricks...
...sense of frantic frustration was in Washington: men wanted to send whole fleets of planes to aid the Greeks, to help knock Italy out of the war. China actually begged for old U. S. trainer planes-anything, almost, that would...