Word: franticness
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...After a frantic weekend, Police Commissioner Russell and Detective Chief Stege handed in their resignations. However they remain on the force as captains. The Tribune took the Lingle story off Page One, perhaps aware that the Chicago Press was far more excited over the case than the Chicago Public.* To the Chicago Public there was an ironic aspect to the matter. Some Chicagoans will tell you that it was the Chicago newspapers which invented racketeering. That is not a fact. Sluggers were imported and organized violence indulged in by warring Chicago building trades unions a quarter-century...
...Result: frantic scrambles not only in Mexico City but throughout the land as the nation's ill-equipped photographers slaved and sweated night and day to turn out 600,000 likenesses on shortest notice...
...such a thing profoundly shocked the Prime Minister's friends last week, but he did give certain orders. As a result ten Scotland Yard detectives entered at about midnight the London home of Citizen John T. Kirk. Frightened Mrs. Kirk saw her husband grilled by the ten, grew frantic while he stubbornly refused to tell something the Prime Minister wished to know, finally became hysterical and by her pleading broke down the resistance of Citizen Kirk, who then told...
Traffic congestion at Tunis and Carthage and in between was snarled. Senegalese troops, big, black upstanding men, assisted frantic local police in trying to direct the streams of vehicles and pedestrians. The Senegalese method was simple. They would club sufficient people to earth so that others could trample through the path. Even Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier, Papal legate to the Congress, conspicuous in red robes, had difficulty in getting about. The Senegalese would not let him proceed to the ruins of Carthage's amphitheatre, where centuries ago the Romans after they had rebuilt Carthage fed communistic Christians to lions...
That was the surprise. The rest of the party consisted in pledges of frantic loyalty to the President by the Deputies. As a matter of fact several are known sympathizers of Judge Manuel Jesús Urbina of the Iquitos Judicial Court who was under arrest last week charged with instigating the 17-year-old pistol carrier, his servant. Therefore the cheers of all the Deputies, their cries of "Viva Leguía! Live, live 10,000 years!" were especially loud...