Word: franticness
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This last of the Will Rogers sagas is about a Mississippi steamboat captain who turns his boat into a waxworks to make enough money to save an accused nephew from hanging. (If that brings any sort of picture to mind.) And when the nephew is definitely condemned, the frantic uncle steams madly up and down the river looking for the one witness of his nephew's innocence...
...Ethiopia had just driven from Leadership of Britain's Labor Party that uncompromising pacifist, "Old George" Lansbury. With invincible stubbornness Mr. Lansbury remained unmoved by the frantic pleas of practical Labor politicians of the old guard. Said they, in effect: "Don't you see, George, that the Government has whipped people up into such a lather against Italy that Labor daren't oppose sanctions, even if they mean war?" This Mr. Lansbury could see clearly enough. Several hundred London stockbrokers and clerks last week mobbed Sir Oswald Mosley's British Fascist news-youths in Throgmorton Street...
...stiff session with the Federal money bag, he passed out $322,000,000 worth of local work relief allotments among a crowd of favor-seekers who were frantic lest he depart on his four-week journey without taking care of them...
...classes and degrees of Southerners-impoverished blue bloods, fox hunting pretenders, millhands, Negroes, intellectuals-are conscientiously fitted into the fictional picture. The result is somewhat reminiscent of an old-fashioned tableau, with symbolic figures representing Poverty lurking miserably on one side of the stage while heedless Wealth dances with frantic unconcern on the other. An imposing volume, beautifully bound and illustrated with five full-color reproductions of Artist Wight's portraits, South has much to recommend it: careful descriptions of characteristically lovely Southern scenery; sensitive evocations of feminine moods; a number of memorable conversations that are witty even...
...seemed capable of going anywhere. But last week in midocean a 100-m.p.h. gale swept down upon her, snapped her foremast, pounded her with huge waves, filled her cockpit, flooded her engine, split enormous seams along her keel. Owner Welsh and his crew flew a distress signal, began frantic pumping and bailing...