Word: franticness
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...were much disturbed last night to receive a frantic telegram from Red Top complaining that the Crimsons were not coming to the training quarters. It further went on to say that the Crimson's correspondent at Red Top was being ducked every day that the Crimson did not arrive...
Amusing as all this excitement may be with it frantic appeals to the "Loyal students" (one might think we were in the midst of civil war!) there is a possibility that in one respect it may be actually harmful.. For is it not likely that it gives the "radicals" a somewhat exaggerated sense of their won importance? The student who is engaged in overturning the government will not in all probability be much deterred from his purpose by being made the cynosure of all eyes; somewhat radicals seem to function at their best under such circumstances...
...freight several ships would race for it. And if any ship looked in at a harbor where some unfortunate producer had perishable freight at the water front, some rascally officer might decline to take it, alleging lack of space, and then purchase the goods at bargain prices when the frantic owner tried to realize something rather than see his property rot on his hands. Ships were so unsanitary that it was an absolute menace to health to travel on them; and owing to lack of schedules, merchants and other travelers couldn't make their plans for any fixed itinerary because...
When the referee blows the final whistle of the contest in the Stadium this afternoon the little red-sweatered automaton whose frantic motions and resounding voice have became familiar to a generation of football followers will have completed his thirteenth successive season as score-keeper. "Eddie" Morris is his name, and in his time he has signalled to the score-board the story of every University game played in the Stadium. In the course of the last two decades he has communicated to the spectators, the telegraphers, and the press reporters on the roof of the Stadium the details...
...line. From here Fox drove his team down the field by a series of brilliant criss-cross plays, Fox, Shupert and Armstrong carrying the ball. At the University 25-yard line Brown was set back by an offside penalty. A Brooks to Albright pass netted eight yards. Two more frantic rushes were stopped for no gain. Fox unsuccessfully drop-kicked from the 30-yard line. Humphrey out-punted Armstrong, thus advancing the ball to the Brown 25 yard line by the end of the quarter...