Word: franticness
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...great fanfare of the college football season is at an end. The last frantic exhortation of cheer-leaders has died away. Teams have disbanded and broken training. Players are once more men and fellow students. And as the fever passes, the delirium ends, and normal sanity returns. Now in cool and balanced judgment we can look at football and see it as it is. The spell is broken...
Cheek's last speech to a large gathering was of a far different order than his talk on Wednesday will be, for the last time he spoke in public was ten days ago when he addressed 1000 frantic students at the football rally...
...once anti-Fascist and anti-Italian demonstrations took place in reprisal at Belgrade, Agram, Laiback, Spalato and other Yugoslavian cities. Apparently the Government of Yugo-Slavia made almost frantic efforts to quell these disturbances, which included the burning of Italian flags, attacks on Italian consulates and some scattered plundering of Italian-owned shops. Foreign Minister Nintchitch of Yugo-Slavia promptly despatched a note of apology to the Italian Government, and was reviled as a "traitor" by many of his countrymen for so doing. The incident appeared closed with the alleged arrival at Belgrade of an Italian note in which...
...Amid frantic cheers from the 1500 students that packed the Union last night, Captain Cheek led 17 other players to the platform as possible starters of the Yale game; nine of the men were backs; Cheek, Miller, Stafford, just out of the infirmary, McGlone, Crosby, Zarakov, Howe, Maher, and Chauncey were named by Coach Fisher as carriers who might be on the field when the opening whistle blows Saturday...
...shipwreck at sea, or a lucky escape from the charge of a lion while game hunting; the original experience was far from enjoyable, but when looking back in retrospect one enjoys, has even a thrill, in recalling the adventure, although at the time one may have been almost frantic with anxiety or fear. We are in love with our memories though the original experiences were far from lovable. The same principle applies to pleasurable football memories...