Word: franticness
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...blind man his conversion to the Truth of Nature, said he would go out and preach under the trees against all churches. But Midland was spared this final apotheosis. That night an idiot boy set fire to the Methodist church, then hid in a barn. The boy's mother, frantic, thought he was still in the burning building. Bruce plunged in to save the idiot and went to glory in the flames...
...afforded no leader who could keep the new Cortes subservient to the Crown. Promptly His Majesty called off the elections he had ordered, called upon Prime Minister Damaso Berenguer (who was still in bed with eczema of the foot) and obtained the cabinet's resignation. Then began the frantic canvass of politicians, the procession of truculent greybeards, through the Royal Palace, men who have been like deflated toy balloons under the Dictatorship, but are now distended again by the breath of power...
Secretary Mellon announced: "No compromise measures informally suggested to the Treasury up to the present time have received its approval." And again in the background of all the frantic Bonus proceedings in Congress loomed the possibility of a veto which would pit President Hoover and Mr. Young squarely against each other on a national issue...
...crippled University quintet lost to Dartmouth last Saturday night, February 7, by a score of 34 to 16, after a powerful and unresisted second-period thrust on the part of the Indian team had put the Crimson players on a somewhat frantic defensive. The game, played at Hanover was the third Crimson defeat in a series of nine games...
...book, with which she apparently was unfamiliar. He read her a passage about herself: "She slaved, she worked herself to the bone keeping us fresh and neat. The bedbugs were a torment to her. She doused the beds with kerosene, changed the sheets, sprayed the mattresses in an endless frantic war with the bedbugs...