Word: frightingly
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...kept his hat down over his eyes and his coat collar up so nobody would recognize him, prematurely set up a hue-and-cry for the kidnappers who had held him 22 days. Safe in his father's home he told a piteous tale of beatings, confinement and fright, then collapsed sobbing...
...Hugo Wolf: Madame Walska was her own sleek self in ropes of pearls and tight black velvet, cut to the waist behind. It was Ganna Walska whom Philadelphians turned out to see, regardless of her Second-Empire costumes. For them it was enough that she had overcome her stage-fright sufficiently to sing...
...good faith. Promptly Mr. Pecora proceeded to pro duce evidence and extract admissions, showing that prior to statement dates various banks of the group arranged to make deposits with one another so as to wipe out "bills payable" for a few days-window dressing to prevent depositors from catching fright. Meantime other officers of the defunct banking group, including Ernest Kanzler, Edsel Ford's brother-in-law, sat squirming in their chairs. None of Detroit's industrial elite under subpoena felt any easier as two agents of the Department of Justice stood in the shadows and noted down...
Trembling with fright for fear of venturing on round where even the angels disagree, the CRIMSON revives an institution of yesteryear and presents to its readers for their disapproval, an All-Stadium football team composed of the best players that the enemy have been able to field. Harvard gridsters have been omitted out of courtesy to our visitors and because it was felt that our opinion might be prejudiced in favor of Crimson players. So that the result is not truly an All-Stadium team, but rather a mythical eleven that would represent the strongest opposition that Harvard could have...
...field of five. "He's a cinch," boasted Manager Naylor. A moment later Naylor groaned in dismay. Winooka, instead of being out in front, was third at the quarter pole, and his trainers knew he was beaten. Jockey Edgar Britt, an apprentice, seemed to be frozen by stage fright. At the last turn Albert C. Bostwick's Mate, a 4-to-1 shot, cut in front of him from the outside, charged down the stretch to win. Winooka dropped back steadily, finished nine lengths behind. Ugly jeers greeted Jockey Britt as he unsaddled, trudged miserably to the scales...