Word: franticness
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...snake-like arms. But he wrenches himself loose before the lights go out. After he flees, shaken in everything but his honor, the hotel burns down and the incandescent lady with it, perhaps from spontaneous combustion. The athlete then faces the problem of either enlightening his friend, driven frantic by his wife's inexplicable disappearance, or of leaving him ignorant, anguished but resting comfortably in his illusions about his wife...
Wearied at last of this outlawry of love, they turn to less frantic dalliance. The wife seeks balm of Gilead in the arms of a theatrical manager; the husband pins his hopes for philandering on a street walker. But they miss their erotic apoplexy. Eventually they drift back to each other, into the maelstrom. They must return to the bonds of holy acrimony. Marriage, they find, is the penalty for those in love...
Although the occupants of the motor launch "Class of '92" could not see anything wrong with the steam launch "John Harvard" as the Latter boat lay stranded, in the middle of the Charles, and thought the frantic waving of Coach Newell and the others in a boat a part of some joke, closer inquiry disclosed that the smoke-stack of the steam launch had blown off and sunk to the bottom of the river. The "John Harvard" was no longer able to keep up team, and lay drifting helplessly in the middle of the Charles. The boat was towed back...
...seemed to many in the audience that all this frantic striving after gigantic effects did not, could not, fulfil Beethoven's expectations for his magnum opus. The Master was straining every nerve to be really Heaven-storming. Not content with a mere orchestra, he had to have a quartet of solo-singers and a huge choir: something decidedly new and revolutionary for his time. He treated the voices brutally: made them sing a series of long high notes that are almost unmanageable...
...belated student returning to his dormitory at an early hour Saturday morning discovered the fire in Delafield's room at 84 Dunster Street. His frantic pounding on the door in an endeavor to rouse the sleepers brought only maledictions on his head from the drowsy inmates. When at last the landlord was aroused to a sense of the danger, he attacked the flames with a fire extinguisher and summoned the fire department, which promptly checked the flames, but not before Delafield's property was utterly destroyed...