Word: franticness
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...Press an appeal from Anthony J. Buttitta of Durham, N. C. for the names & addresses of subscribers to Contempo, a literary magazine (TIME, Jan. 2). Mr. Buttitta said he had moved Contempo from Chapel Hill, N. C., had lost the subscription list in transit. Last week a frantic protest was issued by Milton A. Abernethy of Chapel Hill who said he was the sole proprietor of Contempo; that it had not been moved anywhere; that the one & only subscription list was safe in Chapel Hill; that Mr. Buttitta, onetime co-publisher, was a humbug...
General Smuts did not join Judge Roos last week, but mere talk that a Smuts-Roos coalition might be formed started a frantic rush on South Africa's Reserve Bank. In three days nearly $14,000,000 in Union pounds was either presented for exchange into Union gold sovereigns which the populace hoarded or transferred into accounts abroad. This catastrophic drain meant that the Reserve Bank's gold reserve of $55,000,000 would be exhausted in a few days. With urgence if not fear in his voice. Reserve Bank Governor Johannes Postmus told Premier Hertzog that something...
...nearly life-sized, representing the waternymph in Milton's Comiis, Sabrina was presented to Amherst College in 1857 by one Joel .Hayden. For her nudity Sabrina became the object of many a practical joke. In 1890 the college authorities ordered her removed. Soon there began a series of frantic, tenacious, solemn battles over Sabrina, between the odd-numbered and even-numbered classes. She was first captured and hidden away in 1893. Thereafter Sabrina became known as the ''Goddess of Lord Jeffs." There arose Sabrina-traditions. Those in possession were "Sabrina Men" and must keep the statue hidden, appointing annually...
...late great Chris Bean lived a little while and died. Where are the Bean pictures? There must be dozens of them left about the place. They are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Duped out of a pair of Beans he has in his house, the amiable doctor becomes frantic in his search for the paintings, which no one save the maid, Abby (Pauline Lord), has ever cherished. For a while it looks as if Mrs. Haggett had burned the pictures, that the only thing to do is swindle Abby out of her own portrait. Then the pictures.are found...
Meanest of tricks is to tell a wealthy woman that the best way to clean her Oriental pearls is to swish them through boiling water. As the pearls heat they will lose their moonbeam lustre, may crack and the wealthy lady will grow frantic. Yet last week all Japan honored a short, stocky, crinkly-faced old man who had rolled up his kimono sleeves, seized a blunt spade and vigorously shoveled into a fiery furnace 720,000 of his best pearls. Within three minutes they turned to flaky ashes (crystallized lime...