Word: franticness
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...frantic effort to emulate the All-England Championships at Wimbledon, which are a sell-out every year, the United States Lawn Tennis Association decided this year to try something new. This was to hold the Men's Singles Championship and the Women's Singles Championship, which have hitherto been held at Forest Hills one after the other, at the same time...
...rival steamboat captain against whom Rogers has a frantic last-reel race with their boats the stake, Cobb is completely relaxed, spending all his time on the bridge leaning on the rail, squatting, lying down, bibbing mint juleps, funneling smoke from long black cigars. When, finally, he believes the race won, he decides to take a nap. Stretching out on the bridge's settee, he closes his eyes, murmurs to the mate: "When I fall asleep, take this cigar out of my mouth. I've burned up four boats already...
Where, demanded a frantic telegram from Los Angeles relief officials to Washington relief officials one day last week, was that check for $2,000,000? It was supposed to have been sent a week ago. Things were getting desperate. One hundred and five thousand families were bawling for their doles...
...House of Orange has invested in nearly every good thing in The Netherlands. And Queen Wilhelmina never speculates but holds. Last week, therefore, Wilhelmina viewed with no airy royal detachment the appalling fact that one-fifth of The Netherlands Bank gold reserve had been withdrawn in the frantic scramble for gold produced by fear that Catholic Party Leader Professor Petrus Josephus Mattheus Aalberse might succeed in forming a Cabinet and might then take the guilder off the gold standard...
...years ago the question "Who is George Dimitroff?" could have been answered with enthusiasm only by his old mother. Then German police arrested Bulgarian Dimitroff in their frantic efforts to arrest almost anyone except the Nazis who everyone believes set fire to the Reichstag (TIME. March 6, 1933. et seq.). It was assumed that innocent Communists could be browbeaten before the German Supreme Court into confessing that they had set the fire, or at least that their mouths could be stopped by execution. In stead the Supreme Court acquitted all except the half-witted Dutchman Marinus van der Lubbe. During...