Word: franticness
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...Strength through Joy organization). The day had come when they could sign up to buy a luxury never before available to European peasants and proletarians: a motor car. Since Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he has driven the conservative tycoons of the German automobile industry frantic by demanding that they produce a really cheap "People's Car." Last May he finally took the job away from them and at Fallersleben laid the cornerstone of a factory nearly two miles long by a mile wide, "The Largest Factory of Any Kind in Europe." This plant is not scheduled...
...lingo. Though the League boasts more than 1,500,000 Esperantists all over the world, Esperanto has been threatened for four years by the popularity of Basic English, the skeleton tongue (vocabulary: 850 words) designed by Orthologer Charles Kay Ogden. Esperanto in Esperanto means "one who hopes." The somewhat frantic hope of last week's Kongreso in Londono, Anglujo, was that Esperanto should not become a dead language before it ever showed real signs of life in either of its intended capacities...
...young businessman (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), who not unnaturally supposes that she has selected him as the victim of some sort of racket. Disgusted with modelling, Nicole, abetted by an ex-chorus girl (Helen Broderick) and a parsimonious headwaiter (Mischa Auer), next risks the headwaiter's savings on a frantic effort to find herself a rich fiance. Unfortunately, no sooner does she find what looks like a good prospect than she discovers that the young executive whom she encountered as a model is her suitor's best friend and determined not to allow him to be victimized...
...their southerly drive to Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's provisional capital, the flood was a severe setback. Tokyo papers at once accused the devilish Chinese of having sprung the dikes as a strategic military move. "An atrocity," cried Damei, "by barbarian Chinese. . . . The Japanese are making frantic efforts to check the flow and to rescue the Chinese caught in the flood area, at the same time repulsing Chinese attacks...
Primitive and scientific explanations aside, by last week 16,500 inhabitants of the northwestern mountains of India had died in a cholera epidemic. Frantic sanitarians had vaccinated 600,000 persons, doused thousands of wells with germicidal potassium permanganate to halt an epidemic which began the end of April. Nonetheless, the epidemic has spread northwesterly into Afghanistan...