Word: franticness
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...baby mouse waltzer begins to dance when it is one week old. Thereafter, think scientists, its life is a frantic quest for the balance which it cannot feel on a horizontal plane. Sometimes it whirls on a hind leg, sometimes runs in circles or figure-eights, always twitching, jerking, swaying its head. Occasionally an accomplished mouse varies the routine with a shuffling backstep. Sometimes the mice dance together, one spinning on a hind leg while another runs circles around it. They like to run on treadmills, through tunnels, over bridges, up inclines...
...again. They decided they could keep studios open temporarily at least if employes at $50 a week or more took a 50% paycut for eight weeks, with a 25% cut for employes under $50. What followed was a week of controversy, conducted in the wildest Hollywood fashion, so frantic that even the earthquake passed almost unnoticed. The week ended with every studio in Hollywood closed for the first time in history, while arguments continued between producers and their employes...
...when June Marcher, Madge Evans in screen life, jumps off the bridge when Bastings unfortunately thinks that she is not faithful to him. Bumper rescues her, she has amnesia; Bumper reforms, gets a job, and she is about to marry him. But, Bumper's friend, the Mayor, is almost frantic when June isn't found and is about to commit suicide, and so in typical Al Jolson style there is a happy reunion for all except Bumper who is left out in the Park...
...after day, month after month, clouds of oily, aromatic smoke billow up from the dumps on which Brazil's Government continues to burn coffee in a frantic effort to support its price. Last week the Government announced that since June 1931 over 14 million bags (containing 132 Ib. of coffee each) have been destroyed- the greatest wilful, peacetime destruction of property on record...
...good divining-rod he went and roped one. After digging-hours his children and children-in-law found plenty of trouble to keep themselves busy. Darling Jill was most promiscuous: she seduced her brother-in-law Will and the albino, between whiles teased her potbellied suitor Pluto nearly frantic. Will and Buck's quarrel over Buck's wife, Griselda. was settled when company police shot Will as a labor agitator. Buck soothed his itching trigger-finger when another brother came after Griselda; then he went up the hill to shoot himself. As soon as the excitement was over...