Word: franticness
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...frantic pleas of national defense urged by such jingoes as Senator Hiram Johnson, rest on no secure factual foundation. Most naval strategists recognize that the United States is practically impregnable. Successful Japanese action in the New World is predicated on a naval force of such colossal proportions that no national budget could ever bear...
During the summer of 1933 a frantic debility manifested itself in Her Royal Highness Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, only daughter of King George and Queen Mary. Physicians noted a toxemia which they believed due to a focal infection in her appendix. Sir Frederick Stanley Hewett, Surgeon Apothecary to the King, had a complete surgical unit set up in Princess Mary's Mayfair home, and there the following November her appendix was removed. One of the consultants in the case was Dr. Louis Francis Reobuck Knuthsen, a West Indian who achieved eminence as a London skin specialist...
Under the guiding hand of Marshal George Peabody Gardner, Jr., of Boston, a record number of 1910 classmates, their wives, and children hit town at 2:00 o'clock Monday afternoon to invest the Yard dormitories for four frantic days of twenty-fifth reunioning...
...last, after the filling station man had shut off his noisy air compressor, Farmer Bonifas made the police of Tacoma understand that he had on his hands the most sought-after person in the U. S. What should he do with him? Bring him home at once, barked the frantic police. Meantime, in the automobile outside, George heard newsboys yelling that his uncle had paid his kidnappers $200,000 night before, that apparently arrangements had thereafter become confused, for George had not been delivered at the appointed place. Farmer Bonifas came out of the filling station and he and George...
...eight frantic days, George's parents, members of the multi-millionaire Weyerhaeuser lumber family whose domain stretches from Wisconsin to Washington, had been dickering with "Egoist" for the boy's return while Federal and local police had reputedly kept hands off. The Weyerhaeusers had got little sleep...