Word: franticness
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...does so at an inopportune moment. Brook has been forbidden by Caleb to dance and love Tony, foreigner, Catholic. But Naomi, frantic lest Brook miss the great love she herself had known so fleetingly, tells Brook why she need not obey her "father." In a frenzy of dutiful adolescent loyalty to this man who had treated her as his own, Brook escaped from Tony to Constantinople with a missionary friend of Caleb, and not till years later did she realize what her mother had wished for her. For luckily an English husband rescued her from the missionaries, and later...
...Senator Charles S. Deneen of Illinois. He was a Lowdenite. Lowdenism's fight on Hooverism was featured by frantic assertions that Hooverism could not carry Illinois. Presumably, Nominee Curtis was Senator Deneen's excuse for predicting, last week, for the Hoover-Curtis ticket "a great majority in Illinois...
...came about: While a million radios were still being tuned in to catch the proceedings: while campaign managers were still figuring with frantic pencils the delegates claimed and the delegates secured: even before the chairman stood upon the platform and delivered the quadrennial inveighment against smoking, the issue was settled. Cold water, floods of it poured over the fireworks, and the melancholy farmers could not even rouse a dull "siss!" for all their trying. The anti-Hoover scandal sheets were futile and with no goal before them, they can only fill wastebaskets or memory books...
...which littered Broadway, he produced The Follies, a revue which took its name from the Parisian Folies Bergères and duplicated its gay and daring makeup. New Yorkers, at this time innocent of the malpractice which has since become famous as the "buttock and leg show," danced with frantic eagerness to see what Ziggy* had done. They discovered over the door the legend which, however inaccurate or uncomplimentary it may have seemed, described its author's business in terms that have been remembered. "Glorifying the American Girl" was the legend...
While Representative Madden gasped his last (see above), frantic calls went out for Representatives Sirovich (New York), Summers (Washington), Irwin (Illinois), Fitzgerald (Ohio), all of whom are physicians. Dr. Sirovich arrived first and, lacking a better remedy, applied artificial respiration to the dying man. Breath began, the pulse quickened, but not for long. In five minutes the damaged heart stopped beating...