Word: franticness
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There's a fascination frantic In a ruin that's romantic...
...genuine prince. Nothing was overlooked except that the committee neglected to ascertain that the Prince's hobby was paleobotany - of all things. When the train arrived His Royal Highness eagerly scanned the welcoming brass-hats and demanded "Where is Dr. Wieland?" Consternation smote the party and a frantic search for Yale's forgotten man ensued. He was eventually found at his modest Woodmont cottage, seven miles out of town (no telephone) , rushed into his best suit, to Memorial Hall, and into a seat next to the Prince (at the Prince's insistence). The conversation presented pretty tough...
Fortunately, in the U. S. treasury, as in an old-fashioned attic, valuable relics may be misplaced but rarely lost. Last week, after three days' frantic search, the Alaskan check turned up in a musty drawer of the General" Accounting Office where it had reposed since 1921. By this time, the House had passed Delegate Dimond's bill and it had gone to the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. The Senate Committee decided that, since the check, a piece of national property, was so easily lost, it would be better to send a photostatic copy...
...Families not to hope to see the blessed rule of the Son-of-Heaven extended over somewhat more of China. Manchukuo was "stolen" or "achieved" by his predecessors, according to the point of view. To say that the Prince is a "Liberal" means chiefly that he is not a frantic Japanese zealot who wants his country to bite off more of China than it can chew. To establish, as a sequel to "Manchukuo," another "kuo" of moderate size is Prince Konoye's idea of being Liberal...
...something Moscow really wanted in return for their support penetrated via new French Premier Chau-temps even as far as London. His Majesty's Government were extremely near the point of extending "belligerent rights" to the Spanish Rightists last week (see p. 24), when Downing Street received frantic word from the Quai d'Orsay that Premier Chautemps, in order to get his Cabinet over its first rocks in the Chamber, must be able to tell French Communists that he was successfully staving off this British gesture toward Franco. In this appeal Chautemps & Bonnet-who was on the telephone...