Word: franticness
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Fighting Lacoste in the 1927 finals, Tilden seemed burned out by the frantic rush and smash of trying to defend the Davis Cup (TIME, Sept. 19). Gloom shrouded experts, patriots. Tilden, dogged, forced Lacoste to long deuce sets. Never a popular champion, the greatest ovation of his history drummed into his ears as he walked off the court loser to Lacoste...
...game which in tempo compares with other present-day exercises, as the courante compares to the Charleston. It is played now by members of the Elizabethan Club at Yale University, and by the members of many an old, austere and gentle club, who are too antique for the frantic antics of the pastimes practiced by younger popinjays. No longer foppish, no longer clothed in silk or jerkins, they still narrow their eyes to an Eastern slant, still gabble noisily as they heave their greens about, "the closest thing I ever saw. You couldn't have put a peacock...
Sequelae. 'Doorman McKenna was obliged at once to stand aside and let 15 frantic newsgatherers go tearing and tumbling down the corridors of the high school to transmit the twelve-word shock to an unsuspecting world...
...Brooklyn, Ruth Galfas, 14 months old, caught a greedy chunk of banana in her windpipe; her father Hyman, frantic, ran with her to a drug store, was intercepted by Patrolman Francis Ryan. Patrolman Ryan, calm, dislodged the banana lump; the baby seemed dead. Patrolman Ryan, resourceful, put a handkerchief over her mouth and breathed down her throat for 20 minutes. She revived...
...night telephone girls answered frantic calls. Policemen and fire brigades scurried out to stop the rush away from cities which might be bombed. Twenty-four hours after the original announcement many families were still in hiding...