Word: franticness
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...relief to find that in the frantic rush to Europe and the wonders of the Old World, our own wonders have not been entirely forgotten. The organization of a group of Harvard students, graduates, and faculty members to visit our National Parks is a novelty in "University extension". President Lowell, in approving a committee to organize the hour, has recognized the educational fusibilities of the enterprise and if it proves a success there is every possibility that it will become an institution...
Other exercises are less easily explained, the frantic pulling on the handles of the little express wagon that does not move, the juggling of 500 lb. weights, lap after lap on the running track (perhaps the commuter will miss his train). The "sights" in Tartarus itself were not more diversified or less productive of apparent results...
Once again the lighting was bad, though better than on the previous night. The scenery too had taken a turn for the better. The bounder of Marguerite Gautier looked as if it too had been purified by love until the frantic glare of all available footlights and borders broke the spell of the darkness...
...they run and run as they read". And this statement by the author sums up the whole proposition very neatly, in that the book is imbued with the "running" fever; the author runs--jazzily, rejoicing in his own self-confessed naughtiness; and the reader runs likewise--mainly in aimless, frantic circles! Until finally both author and reader are hopelessly weary of themselves, the book, and each other. There is not even the jauntiness that at least justified Fitzgerald's earlier works; he has fed his muse on modern highballs--and now she has the headache...
...frantic news candidate recently asked permission to "get a story about the clock." With great difficulty he was restrained by a sagacious managing editor who felt that the general public should be allowed to indulge its imagination to the fullest possible extent without the hindrance of prosaic truth. Many have suggested that the loyal Painters' Union intended to pay a two handed compliment-to Yale by showing the very faint traces of Orange emerging from the Blue; to Harvard by an unmistakable registering of the score of November nineteenth. Unfortunately, the painters in their zeal have grossly misrepresented...