Word: distraughtly
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Winthrop House will revel in melodrama tonight as it watches "Lady Audley's Secret," or the "Distraught Villainness," played by a group of its own inhabitants...
...President at a baseball game yelling and popping peanuts into his mouth. Worse was a photograph he took in which a trick of light had made the President look ghastly pale. Its publication brought the White House a storm of anxious letters inquiring about the President's health. Distraught, Secretary Early declared a ban on all candid cameras around the White House...
...Besides, remember that those whom the gods destroy they first make mad, and note the terrible coincidence by which Barthou began to run after he was wounded and then a distraught officer placed the tourniquet below instead of above the wound...
...Replying with spirit. Miss Wu chaffed back: "I'm not too fat. Have a look! I'll go on making pictures for at least two more years." In China such a job as Butterfly Wu's is not soft. If she is playing a distraught mother grieving when her child is killed, the Chinese director is apt to decide that a real mother in such circumstances would weep for 23 minutes. Hence Miss Wu must and does weep for 23 minutes in the Chinese film, which is probably at least 20 reels long...
...handle those distraught men, women & children costs New York City hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, including $9,000 salary for the manager of all its activities. Although he might have earned several times $9,000 yearly in private practice, Dr. Menas Sarkas Gregory, a hot-tempered, domineering, hardworking, learned little Armenian, long considered the salary worth-while because along with it went the perquisite of power over staff and patients...