Word: franticness
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...Wendell Willkie had done to Mr. Roosevelt's thoughts about Term III. Whatever the answer (the U. S. will have it after the Democrats convene July 15), G. 0. P.'s Willkie turned the last trace of Third Term opposition in the Democratic Party into a frantic demand that Mr. Roosevelt run. Even old Jack Garner, who seldom forgives and never forgets, sadly made up his mind that Franklin Roosevelt was the only Democrat who could beat this man Willkie. Janizaries like Tom Corcoran (see p. 53) trumpeted that Mr. Roosevelt now had no choice left; party hacks...
Those voices might have been pointing the direction of public opinion's next frantic scramble, but last week U. S. public opinion did not hear them. It was flat on its face, breathing hard...
...patient. For a week he prowled in search of one. One evening, in a Russian cafe, he noticed a man playing Otchi Tchornyia on the guitar. "Not only his face muscles, but his whole body writhed," said Dr. de Savitsch, "and I saw him make a frantic clutch at the seat of his pants. I could hardly wait for the music to stop. With little effort I persuaded the man to let me examine him ... in the washroom. It was as fine a case of strangulated hemorrhoids as any intern in surgery could wish, and I rushed...
...traveled 200 yards, coxswains were busy bailing. Presently the Washington boatload began slowly to sink like the orchestra in Radio City's Music Hall. Official launches scurried to the rescue, scurried on to rescue Syracuse, Columbia, California. Cornell and Navy managed to stay afloat for nearly a mile. Frantic horn-tooting and whistle-blowing finally notified them that the race had been called...
...piercing shriek over the decrease in its foreign revenues. Most of the belligerents forbade the export abroad of box-office receipts, but they went on piling up in the form of credits. Now Hitler is making it look as if these credits too might disappear. Result: the most frantic retrenchment in Hollywood history...