Word: franticness
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...Communist headquarters, smashed everything they could lay hands on, flung chairs into the street and kept shouting, "We are going to stamp Communism out of Cuba!'' That night correspondents checked a total of six dead, two dying, 20 wounded. The Army's excitable "Emperor" Batista was frantic because his cousin Benito had been wounded...
...yellow-haired little girl with her milk teeth missing stood on the Button Lumber Co.'s wharf at Poughkeepsie one noon last week and waved frantic farewell to her grandfather on a big white yacht easing out into the Hudson River. At the Nourmahal's rail stood "pop," otherwise the President of the. U. S., waving back to his six-year-old granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt ("Sistie") Dall. Also on the wharf were "Sistie's' flaxen-haired young mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, "Sistie's" white-haired great-grandmother, Sara Delano Roosevelt who, a few minutes before...
...second act is frankly vaudeville. Giving in to the frantic cries of the guests, Miss Loftus does excellent parodies of Ethel Barrymore, Pauline Lord, Fannie Brice, Constance Collier and any vaudeville duo singing "It's Wonderful, It's Marvelous." Suddenly Mrs. Campbell turns from her formidably charming self into something strange and pretentious reciting Hecuba's speech from Euripides' The Trojan Women, then a fable about a mermaid. A girl sings some songs. The guests scream interminably for more...
...sent agents provocateurs to foment the original strikes, thinking that a little trouble would give Dictator Machado an excuse to order out the Army and fight to keep his power. Day after day, as strikes spread far beyond the Government's possible wish, Havana police grew more & more frantic. When strikers forced shopkeepers to close their doors, Police Chief Antonio Ainciart set out with a machine gun squad. Swearing blue blazes he brandished a big pistol under shopkeepers' noses, compelled them to open up-until a few minutes after he had left when they tremblingly lowered the steel...
...jail, even if it meant getting into a coffin. Next morning at exercise he fell into a frenzy. Brought before the prison's acting governor, he was sentenced to three days in solitary confinement. As two guards led him toward the silence cell, he struggled frantically fell injured himself. Fifteen minutes later he was dead. The prison physician affirmed that "the prisoner was a healthy man of average intelligence and sound mind." But Brigadier-General Edward Louis Spears, husband of U.S.-born Novelist Mary Borden, spoke he shocked opinion of many an Englishman when he uprose in Parliament...