Word: franticness
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...unwholesome taint hung last week over Brighton. The feminine mayor of this most respectable resort on the whole so-called "British Riviera" was almost frantic when embarrassed policemen broke the news to her. In the parcel room of balmy, blissful Brighton's sprawling railway station the headless, armless, legless torso of a woman had been found in a small trunk. Shrilled Mayor Margaret Hardy: "This case belongs to London! Nothing like this has ever happened before in Brighton...
...Hollywood style by Ben Heeht and Charles Mac Arthur who gave it new lines, exaggerated the heroic, and knew John Barrymore would have the lead. Unlike its predecessors of the "Shanghai Express" variety, "Twentieth Century" has no villains, bandits, or languishing females, but is graced with a frantic, egomaniae producer (John Barrymore), his irrepressive, temperamental actress (Carole Lombard) and ensuing fireworks...
Around-the-world luxury liner is wrecked. Out of the panic of passengers and the frantic energy of officers and men, Author Herm draws a subtle analysis of the emotion of fear...
Scene of the story is a door factory in the U. S. Northwest. First part gives the slowly piling-up events of one night. The trouble started when the lights in the factory went out. The men's pay had been cut again & again. They were driven nearly frantic by the yapping inconsistency of the foreman, Carl, a self-styled efficiency expert who understood practically nothing of the factory's detail but who had been recently imported to cut costs, rush orders through. When the lights went out and the machinery stopped, Carl blamed his chief enemy, Hagen...
...might as well take it. Asa Congdon. urged by his go-ahead wife, advised Hoxsie to sell, hoped that the real estate company would come to him next. Most of the old inhabitants took it quietly, but the Herendenes, city folks with summer places near Hoxsie's, were frantic at the idea of letting in a cheap development, tried to get their friends together and raise money to buy the Hoxsie place themselves. Perry, Herendene's best friend and neighbor, had the money to spare, but he was having a love affair with Herendene's wife, which...