Word: franticness
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...annual convention. Red flags were much in evidence, Communists were greeted enthusiastically. British Laborites presented a gold watch to Moscow's Tomsky. And little lean Ben Tillett, one of the founders of the Labor Party, made a speech which, according to one observer "was so violent, frantic and ruthless in his call for a revolution that many persons in the audience drifted away startled and horrified...
...camping with Steinmetz, a young Dutchman wanted to blow up a stump. For dynamite he began mixing potassium chlorate and powdered sulphur but pressed too hard on a lump in the chlorate. A blinding flash, and the youth was found all bloody. Others were excited but Steinmetz, frantic, outdid them, jabbered English, German, gibberish, hopped from bed to chairs till quieted...
...Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, holding a handkerchief to his cheek. An observer said, "There goes the Mayor, looking half shot." An excitable woman heard, saw the handkerchief, started a report that the Mayor had been shot. Two hours later the Mayor arrived at the City Hall, explained to a frantic horde of reporters that the reason for the handkerchief had been three bad teeth, to be extracted the next...
Amid the typical, frantic French cheering which followed. M. Franklin-Bouillion conceded himself routed. "I withdraw!" he shouted, enthusiastic even in repentance, "Cher M. Briand, I withdraw my motion...
Though their crops were parching, English farmers kept their level heads, but small-town Cubans panicked badly. Frantic was the situation provoked at Santiago de Cuba when the Chief of the Water Works, without warning, cut off all water from public buildings, hotels, finally from homes. Next day this thrice rash official telegraphed to Havana...