Word: franticness
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...result was frantic scrambling in the bazaars of Peiping (once Peking) by one-time Chinese courtiers, court eunuchs and palace servants who paid fantastic prices last week for Manchu robes and bits of court regalia which they had sold for next to nothing after "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang drove the boy Emperor out of Peiping's Imperial Palace. With hopes high over 100 kinsmen of the Manchu House left Peiping for Manchukuo, led by Puppet Henry's Cousin Prince Kung...
...when a telephone call sent him flying to Houston. There Sue Trammell, 5-months-old daughter of ex-President Wash Bryan Trammell of Houston Natural Gas Co., lay ill with hydrocephalus. The Trammells' other child had died of the same condition a few months before. Mrs. Trammell was frantic when doctors told her that the man who could save Sue's life was Dr. Dandy in Baltimore 1,400 mi. away. Would Mr. Wedell fly Sue & family to Dr. Dandy...
...frantic parents the train's engineer gibbered that he had had his bell clanging, his whistle wide open, that he had not seen the bus until it had turned sharply almost under the locomotive wheels. Lying cut and bruised on a cot in a Baptist parsonage, old D. R. Niles hoped that he, too, would...
Textbook scribblers of coming generations, gazing back on the second quarter of the 20th Century in frantic search for a Turning Point, may very well seize upon the "Ulysses" decision as its symbol. Here was a judicial opinion which, a few years before, might have caused bonfires to be lit from Coast to Coast as the tocsin rang out its warning to the pure in mind. It was couched in language which almost any intelligent person might read and even enjoy, being free from the customary pomposity and elephantic periods of the bench. It stated quite clearly that to call...
...regard him as a "puritanical censor," said he found "ample grounds to consider Ulysses an obscene book." Fat, bald-headed Judge Woolsey who spent his vacation last summer on Ulysses, puffed a cigaret in a long holder, admitted that "reading parts of that book almost drove me frantic," ended up by saying "I must take a little more time to make up my mind." Last week, Judge Woolsey's mind was made...