Word: franticness
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Theoretically "Daily" editorials should express the opinion of Radcliffe as a whole. Valiantly the frantic desk editor scans the "New York Times", the "Christian Science Monitor", and even the "Harvard CRIMSON". If luck is with her, she hits upon a suitable phrase from which she tries to evolve the universal idea of Radcliffe. Now, the body she is attempting to represent is, though not great, diverse. Therefore at the very outset she is in a dilemma--to say or not to say. If she chooses the better course, she merely compounds various facts and theories into a sort...
Ransom. Meantime the frantic Lindberghs were making stronger and stronger efforts to get in touch with the kidnappers. Two days after the kidnapping, NBC broadcast: Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh not only wish but hope that whoever is in possession of the child will make every effort to communicate with them...
Fluffy disappeared. Jane Ruby tossed, her fever rose. Four spitz puppies whined with hunger. To the Jamaica police station went frantic Mrs. Ruby. There she found a kind-hearted detective named Horace Holden. Off went Horace Holden on a dog hunt. A day's sleuthing brought him to the room where Lawrence Smith lived. There was Fluffy. Horace Holden bundled Lawrence Smith and Fluffy in the back seat of his automobile, set out for the Ruby house...
...showy music designed to demonstrate a fiddler's virtuosity.f Everyone knows now that Yehudi can play trills and double-stops with an assurance worthy of a Kreisler or a Heifetz. Brahms wrote music for grownups, music that is deeply contemplative and tender, faintly austere. People made frantic efforts to get tickets for the concert, not out of vulgar curiosity, but because they felt he could do it justice...
...Admiral, in the unmistakable language of an ultimatum, had issued his demands to Shanghai's Mayor Wu. Frantic, the Mayor and the tycoons of the city had agreed to accept them all-not only to make reparation for the tousling of five Japanese monks who had paraded through Shanghai streets beating drums; but also to abolish the anti-Japanese societies which promote the boycott on Japanese goods (TIME...