Word: franticness
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...years of wardenship at Sing Sing were stormy and exciting. He was indicted for alleged "mismanagement" but the case was dismissed promptly. The return of Warden Osborne to Sing Sing was marked by a frantic demonstration by the prisoners among whom he was always extremely popular
...Dartmouth bag: a triple pass, executed with the polish of a fortune-teller's shuffle; criss-cross plays that befuddled the Harvard backs as much as if they had seen Halfback Oberlander (Dartmouth) take a rabbit out of his helmet. Dark fell before Harvard's last frantic forward pass slipped through groping butterfingers to the ground. Score: Dartmouth 32, Harvard...
Morning on the Gold Coast dawned on empty streets, but pursuit of the busy towing car would have revealed a lot overflowing with cars of every description. The outraged owner, apprised of his bereavement, instituted a frantic search and finally located his missing car. It was at once apparent that the guardians of the law had shared the joke with the garage in whose lot the cars were stored, for a fee of eight dollars was exacted before the car could be moved from durance vile...
...Dayton, Walter White, superintendent of schools in Rhea County, had thousands of letterheads printed defining himself as "Prosecutor in the State of Tennessee vs. John T. Scopes-Evolution Case." Assisting Mr. White, perspiring, in shirt sleeves, were many "real live wires," who kept a stenographer frantic taking letters on the impressive letterheads to all sorts and conditions of people...
...unfaithful to her husband, Lawyer Edward Beale of Brooklyn, Harvard and Manhattan. Up to that point, characters and motives have progressed only by lurches, blockaded by Mr. Hackett's gesticulating presence. Eleanor and Stephen get away splendidly, but stall in their big love scene, which is therefore obscene. Frantic, Mr. Hackett descends again to the crank, gets them chugging through an idyll in Virginia. Edward barely escapes nervous wreckage at a memorable Democratic convention. Eleanor finds the low road tarred. The nice young couple are reunited on the high road of respectability and drive happily out of a study...