Word: franticness
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What if some vagrant urchin did press the unlucky fire-button which started all the excitement? What if Claverly Hall was not in flames, as some of the scurrying undergraduates fondly and audibly hoped? We have been generously treated to a free and frantic demonstration of the quite exciting efficiency of the fire-fighters and hose-hoisters of Cambridge, who late forbade two successive smokers in the poor old Union. If the impact of final examinations or the discreet and tinder-dry celebration of Class Day should somehow cause spontaneous combustion hereabouts, we know that they will be at hand...
...Clowns" is but another instance of the almost unbelievable lack of ordinary foresight for which Soviet supporters are traditionally famous. Frankly, we have been perhaps somewhat diffident when the delights of Bolshevism have been described to us. The whole thing seems too tame, too common-place for words. The frantic mobs in the streets of Moscow cannot compare to the lunch hour at Jimmie's. The pools of blood in the public squares at Patrograd are nothing to one familiar with Harvard Square slush. Even the wildest extremes of Bolshevik art fail to stir those of us who have gazed...
...since last fall--indicating that buying by those who want the actual wheat, to use or to store away, has been the proximate cause of the rise. Back of this, in the judgment of good students of the market, lies buying by the Governments of England and France, and frantic buying by housewives, enormous in the aggregate, which has forced the millers to unprecedented buying of cash wheat. Back of this are many factors, not the least the alarms spread by the Government and the newspapers, especially since the shortage of winter wheat became known. A shortage of winter wheat...
...disappointment of defeat is the satisfaction of knowing that our team fought with a tonacity and spirit that will long be remembered by Harvard men. With a Yale team spurred on by the goad of former crushing defeats only twelve yards from a touchdown, the Crimson line withstood eight frantic onslaughts, while the fighting spirit of Harvard reduced the gains from yards to foot. Such a superhuman stand was a tribute to both the coaches and players of the 1916 team...
...conventional pound of flesh. Portia's defense is grounded on the claim that the calf cannot be moved without a permit from the board of health, on account of the prevalence of the hoof and mouth disease. While Shylock is debating this phase of the case the frantic manager comes rushing down the aisle declaring that the train leaves in 10 minutes. The whole company leaves the stage and hastens up the aisle singing the farewell chorus from the back of the theatre...