Word: franticness
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...calm any frantic men who may have been exposed, Dr. Means belittled the seriousness of the Teutonic measle, comparing its effects to those of the common cold, and added that in many cases it was not even as bad as the villainous streptococcus...
When interviewed as to the reaction to this frantic plea, A.T. Zupp-Zupp '84, erstwhile Ibis of the "Lampoon," confessed, in a still, small voice, that it had been alarming. All those who had paid for their subscriptions sold them for what they could get (a few went for as little as one cent), though the majority yielded a quarter or so. The crisis was only slightly severer than those experienced chronically by the "Lampoon," accounting possibly for its checkered chronology. Mr. Zupp-Zupp could only express amazement that the sheet is still in circulation...
...peanuts, which virtually stopped trading on the Baltic Exchange for three days, soon provoked uneasiness in two other commodities which have lately become speculative favorites in London: white pepper and shellac. Gamblers who had bought orange shellac on margin at 122 shillings per cwt. during last year's frantic speculation could not sell for more than seven shillings sixpence last week. Although financial editors declared that "certain weak positions have been taken over by strong hands," Mincing Lane brokers remembered that the same thing had been said before the Strauss crash. White pepper traders were chilled by the Strauss...
That evening at 7 o'clock the long table in Palazzo Venezia was piled with pacts and protocols. All were signed with celerity by Mussolini and Laval, after which correspondents spent a frantic evening cabling summaries. In sum France and Italy agreed: 1) that Italy will receive some 58,000 sq. mi. of French African territory, also a share in the French-controlled strategic railway which dominates Abyssinia, and an outlet providing Italy with a port on the Gulf of Aden; 2) that Italy will aid France toward bringing Germany to a reasonable stabilization of her armaments...
...When Sir John and Mrs. Lawrence go off to be wed at his country place. Irene slips out into the February night to drown herself in the Thames. She changes her mind but almost freezes to death in the process. It takes the combined reasoning of Sir John, her frantic mother, her grandmother, her sister and the family physician to bring Irene to face the situation realistically...