Word: franticness
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Recalling the World War years, most German-Americans agree that their neighbors' spy hysteria shattered not only their nerves but, for a time, their faith in the U. S. as well. Yet during that frantic period, Austrian Immigrant Ludwig Bemelmans, a 19-year-old U. S. Army recruit whose English could barely be understood, almost completely escaped the spy mania and acquired an affection for the U. S. that embraced factory landscapes, a "wondrously beautiful" prostitute and the insane. My War with the United States, a translation of his German diary, is the record of that sunny Americanization. Smiling...
...months ago, after a long hard session of work, Dr. Fishbein suffered an attack of Bell's palsy. The right side of his face hung slack as a bloodhound's jowls. Anna, his wife, "was frantic." He went to bed at once. Neurologists tickled him with electric currents, and an orthopedist stripped his face in a brace. This supported his facial muscles until the nerves recovered and took charge of muscular tone. After three and a half weeks Dr. Fishbein recovered with no residual grimace...
...many a frantic student, and to a few public utility operators and drug store keepers, yesterday was just another insufferably hot twelve hours, in which one or more boresome tasks had to be methodically faced or skillfully neglected according to long practice and tradition. To thousands of others it was a day of much desired relaxation, whether in the Red Sox bleachers, on the open road, at a nearby beach, or in a movie theatre with washed air. To the remaining few was left the function of celebrating Memorial Day as those who designated it as a holiday expected...
...comedians, a flanking barrage of laughs is provided by the continual reappearance of a man from the We Never Sleep Collection Agency who is trying to repossess a typewriter, an elk's head which the director loyally refuses to pawn and two stuffed owls. There are also a frantic and shirtless stage manager, a great penultimate fake deathbed scene which keeps Miller and almost everyone else from being taken to jail for fraud and forgery. Critical consensus is that Room Service will be notable for long life as well as long laughs...
Encouraged, the stickmen staged a frantic offensive in the closing minutes led by Wintherspoon and Hartstone, but were unable to crack the Bulldogs' defense...