Word: franticness
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...decisive assassination of Premier Chiang would raise his kidnapping much above this indicated status. Even then Young Chang might have in mind simply taking over the whole scheme, or one like it, and attempting to carry it through with a dope addict's overweening confidence in himself. To frantic Mme Chiang, who was with great difficulty prevented from flying to Sian from Nanking, the gallant young Marshal telegraphed: "Before God, I swear I have not harmed anybody. Therefore you need not worry...
...that these should all be advanced. Elementary courses would not count toward the degree, and would only be taken by four-year men whose lack of school preparation demanded it. In this manner a comprehensible choice would be given to incoming Freshmen which would entail no useless friction and frantic decisions followed by summer school sessions...
...London, businessmen with a monetary stake in the Coronation, such as hotel-men, makers of Coronation mugs and bunting, etc., grew frantic at their inability to find in British papers last week news absolutely vital to their private business. Many of them had Manhattan papers read back to them by transatlantic telephone. London insurance brokers were suddenly swamped with an avalanche of customers. While $500 of insurance against postponement of the Coronation could at first be had for $20, latecomers were obliged to pay $130. Finally the market became so top-heavy that brokers were unwilling to take...
...various places. Bombed and burned with a loss of 1,000,000 pesos was Parsons Hardware Co., only a quarter of a mile from the great tinder box of the President's Malacañan Palace. Police with riot guns raced through the city trying by a frantic display of energy to conceal the fact that Benigno Ramos' proclamation had completely lulled their suspicions, that they had taken few precautions against such violence, that they had no idea whether Sakdalistas, Communists or other radicals had sown Manila with explosives...
...live possibility. The rival's husband is a stodgy jurist who spends his time writing minority decisions and listening to the Woops radio hour, but he is endeared to the public by the possession of a weak stomach. Anyway, Miss Cowl is forced to spend most of play in frantic and comical efforts to break the rising momentum to which she gave the first push...