Word: franticness
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What the Islander struck was not certain. There was no ice, no fog. No less uncertain was the amount of gold that went down with the ship. According to one survivor the purser handed out to frantic passengers all but two $10,000 bags which no one claimed. According to another, many a victim went to the bottom hugging $40,000 bags of nuggets and dust...
...shut off the city's light, water, or food supplies. It did not silence the newspapers, throwing the city into a state of rumor-ridden ignorance about what was going on. If Labor had dared to go to these extremes, it would have had a frantic San Francisco by the throat. As it was, instead of paralyzing, the strike only pinched, inviting citizens and Government to rise and stamp out their tormentor...
Whom the Gods Destroy (Columbia). When Producer John Forrester (Walter Connolly) finds himself off the coast of Newfoundland on the deck of a sinking ocean liner, he removes his lifebelt and gives it to another passenger. A moment later, acting on a frantic impulse, he undoes his heroism by wrapping himself in a lady's coat, hopping into a lifeboat which lands him safely in a fishing village. When he gets back to New York several months later, John Forrester finds himself mourned as a dead hero. He realizes that if he makes it known that he is still alive...
...teach Gold Coast natives, who own more than 5,000 mi. of improved highways, how to dodge motor traffic, Nana Sir Ofori Atta, while visiting London, took practice crossing frantic Trafalgar Square (see cut). Sir Ofori, Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of Akyem Abuakwa, a Gold Coast district which once supplied myriads of U. S. slaves, is a rich, pious, English-speaking Presbyterian, especially educated in manual training and agriculture, whom King George knighted for marshalling Gold Coast natives against the Germans in Africa during...
...seduction, according to Vivian MacMillan, consisted in Premier Brownlee's telling her that illness had caused Mrs. Brownlee, who had borne him two strapping sons, to become his wife in name only and that this drove him nearly frantic. "He told me he needed me as a pal," testified Miss MacMillan. "I told him that if I did such a thing it would be a sin. He told me that he could not go on as Premier of Alberta unless I would give in to him. I seemed to be under a spell. He seemed to be playing with...