Word: franticness
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...base of the peaks. First to burn was the power house and out went all Hakodate's lights. Soon after the wireless station went, shutting the city off from the world. With the flicker of flames over their shoulders, crazy mobs stampeded down the dirt streets. Frantic little firemen ran toward the fire, hosed impotently. turned and ran for their lives. The wind-driven fire chased one mob toward the wharves, up to the water-edge and over into the Bay. Scores drowned. The fire caught others and incinerated them in their tracks. In the early morning the Mayor...
...historians will be grateful for his picture of Lenin addressing a meeting: "The buzz of conversation dies as he shuffles onto the stage before you. For a period you join in the frantic applause. Then you watch him, this little man in his plain suit, standing there modestly, almost humbly. He speaks in German, not very well, pausing occasionally or even asking a word from those beside him. At first, though the silence is complete, you can hardly hear him. Then his voice strengthens and you listen with feverish eagerness for his message...
...South Africa wild rumors that "Roosevelt will buy unlimited foreign gold," caused a near riot on Johannesburg 'Change as frantic brokers bid up "kaffirs" (mining shares) to dizzy highs on orders from London and towns all over South Africa...
...almost enough courage to tell the alumni where they get off and appoint a graduate football coach. There would seem to be no particular reason why Yale should not got a non-graduate coach if it wants to, but one wonders why it should take weeks and weeks of frantic effort--all chronicled in columns upon columns of type in the metropolitan press--to accomplish the purpose. The spectacle of a highly paid athletisc director and his assistants, to say nothing of the president of the University, scurrying down to New York every few days to interview prospects...
...famed subject, the dim-witted Dutch brick mason Marinus van der Lubbe. At the time he set fire to the German Reichstag there was no death penalty for such an act. It was hastily decreed, on the day after the fire, by President von Hindenburg at the frantic insistence of Herren Hitler, Goring and Goebbels. Would not Old Paul commute the sentence of Dutchman van der Lubbe to imprisonment? All Holland was hopeful when the Nazi-controlled Press threw out strong, repeated hints that President von Hindenburg would accede to Queen Wilhelmina's request. Overnight came a Nazi smack...