Word: franticness
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...strewn only aided her to leave many more behind. The roses she found were big round silver ones which her father, Darius Ogden Mills, reached down and plucked from the depths of the Comstock Lode. Darius Ogden Mills left his bank clerking job in Buffalo, N. Y., in the frantic year 1849, went to California. By the time his daughter Elisabeth was born in New York nine years later, he and John W. Mackay had amassed the kind of money that starts timocratic dynasties. With a background of intelligence and wealth, Elisabeth Mills was destined to become the financial...
...Also kidnapped last October near Loshan in Honan Province was Rev. Kristofer N. Tvedt, a St. Paul Minn. Lutheran missionary, recently ransomed (TIME, April 27). He reached Hankow last week where his wife and six children have been frantic with anxiety for half a year. Broken in health, looking 20 years older and horribly dirty, Mr. Tvedt said...
...week wore on, the swarms grew thicker. They swept through Mississippi, into Arkansas and Louisiana. Hordes of the stinging females would select a mule or cow, settle on it, ride out its frantic, bucking efforts to escape, and leave it dead. Reports began to come in: 125 mules killed in Coahoma County alone. There two days later were 400 mules and cattle dead. Around Helena, Ark., 500 farm animals expired in the lowlands. More & more deaths were recorded to the southward...
...Rothenstein autobiography contains many a Rothenstein portrait, innumerable anecdotes of his famed friends. Immaculate James McNeill Whistler always called him "Parson." Rothenstein's frantic efforts to keep Verlaine sober at Oxford are fully described. Walter Pater was grievously hurt at Parson Will's drawing of him, asked his friends privately "Do I look like a Barbary...
...Spanish peseta, which since the Dictatorship of the late Primo de Rivera has slumped from 5.89 to 10.66 to the dollar. A Loan from the House of Morgan helped stabilize the French franc in 1926. Spain had had $25,000,000 from the same source in 1928 in a frantic effort to peg the falling peseta. Thought Alfonso, a Morgan Loan would be just the thing...