Word: franticness
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...three days he was wracked, wrecked, frantic with insidious syncopation. Not until he repeated the verses to a friend was he released from torture. The friend learned the jingles quickly, eagerly?and went quite as mad as Mark Twain had been...
...Telephone Girl (Madge Bellamy, Holbrook Blinn). A political boss uncovers illicit love in his opponent's past. But he needs the name of the lady involved to make the scandal complete. After a frantic search pivoting about the telephone girl, he discovers the faintly scarlet woman is his daughter. Speedy melodrama capably acted...
Died. Charles W. Svensson, painter, uncle of Cinemactress Gloria Swanson; in Manhattan, in a fire in his studio from which, frantic, he was trying to rescue his portraits of his famed niece...
...night when he staggers back with dishevelled half and ink stained fingers after the last sheet of copy has dropped into the insatiable basket. During the interviewing period, rumor has it, he spends his time dashing from University Hall, to Soldiers Field, to the H. A. A. in a frantic search for news; assailing famous statesmen in their bedrooms at the Somerset, and actors in their dressing rooms at the Opera House in quest of interviews; writing fervent letters to every acquaintance he and his parents boast; beseaching special articles on anything from birth control to the British Empire...
Denver, ridden by a newspaper war between Gambler-Publisher Fred G. Bonfils with a morning and evening Post and the Scripps-Howard syndicate with a morning and evening News (TIME, Feb. 14), continued in its crazy aspect of wildcat frontier town. Last week the Post's frantic efforts for circulation included: A spectacle to signalize the Denver auto show: "The next thing on the Denver Post's free amusement program, ladies and gentlemen,* will be a thrilling leap for death by 75 world-famous Autoarabs, the tumbling Gas Anns, the Leaping Lenas of motordom's circus world...