Word: franticness
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...hours of frantic debate, three Deputies had both eyes blacked shut. A blow from behind stunned Deputy Sigfrido Blasco, son of the late, great Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez. Several Deputies stood off physical assaults with drawn revolvers, retained just enough sense not to fire. Along about the middle of the struggle, the National Assembly voted 227 to 41 to adopt as Article III of Spain's new Constitution (full text): "No official State religion shall exist...
Today's utilitarian temper, like a wood, rank or otherwise, is wedging its way between the mossy old stones of scholastic tradition. And the Harvard Houses, in their frantic game of leap-frog with Oxford and Cambridge, may yet wake up to find themselves more English than modern England itself...
...effort to show how innocent by-standers can be drawn into criminal proceedings, the director achieved a picture of family life which was undeniably real. Frances Starr and Grant Mitchell portray the parents with a naturalness which is extremely gratifying. The acting of Miss Starr where she is frantic for the welfare of her family deserves nothing but praise, and whereas Charles (Chic) Sales, who specialized as the grandfather, was guilty of exaggeration, Walter Huston played the prosecutor with more feeling than is usual in the case of screenland officials. "The Star Witness", in spite of occasional lapses, is sincere...
...years later, she was the first comedienne of the Manhattan stage, able to give her baldest line the glitter of an epigram. Her first venture in Hollywood was an undistinguished effort for Pathe called The Awful Truth. Her next was a marriage with John Gilbert which resulted in such frantic publicity for the last celebrated lover of the silent cinema that it made Actress Claire look a little foolish. Her contract with Pathé abruptly terminated. Actress Claire was signed by Paramount and given an opportunity to star in one of the best pictures of 1930, The Royal Family. Last...
...Save Our Ships" Two of the country's greatest steamship companies sent out frantic calls of S. O. S. last week. Gravely the United States Shipping Board pondered whether or not it should go to the rescue, and if it should, how to go. Loudest of the calls was from United States Lines Inc. whose master is ambitious Paul W. Chapman. In 1929, U. S. Lines acquired eleven vessels from the U. S. Shipping Board for $16,000,000, paid $4,000,000 down. It has two large ships abuilding which will cost $22,000,000, and on which...