Word: distraughtly
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Starr Faithfull. a sexually distraught, neurotic young woman whose death excited the nation (TIME. June 29. 1931, et seq.). died by drowning after she had been drugged with luminal and thrown from a boat, declared Dr. Gettler. A difference of saltiness between the bloods in the right and left cavities of her heart, ''the only positive test of death by submersion." showed that the young woman had actually died in that manner. Dr. Gettler established the blood-saltiness test for drowning by drowning dogs in salt and fresh waters. He found that, in drowning, water always gets into...
...however, temerity be not forbidden and the impressions of that temerity be not vain, one is tempted to suggest that the two humorous undergraduate publications look to their laurels. Youth has been quick to appraise and to emulate the form if not the substance of the diversion common to distraught journalists, hapless explorers, and brilliant financiers. To the hoax it has brought the charm of unflagging devotion and ingenuous extravaganza; but in maturity there remains ever that godlike leaven of simplicity which is the preface to credibility...
...story concerns itself with Paul Vanderkill, whose name is also a telephone number, and Madeleine McGonegal, whom he meets in the Loveland dance hall. After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, time elapses until the birth of their child who dies at the hospital. Madeleine, very distraught, believes that Paul no longer loves her, that her last hold on him is gone, and that the only solution is to go to Mexico, where divorces are quick and quiet. There she meets Panama Kelly, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose perennial proposals were formerly the bane of her existence, but new are most welcome...
...Hoover believes that Governor Roosevelt & henchmen are trying to steal the presidency from him with lies about his past and misrepresentations about his present. Radio listeners who heard only the Hoover voice imagined him flushed and fighting mad. The President's-audience within the hall saw a pale, distraught man, deeply aroused by political forces beyond his control. His scalding words, his tense tones were what many a Republican had wanted to see him use three months instead of three weeks before election...
...Continental Army, receives more conventional, but equally engaging treatment. The author brings to the beginnings of the Republic a knowledge and an insight that is particularly grateful in a foreigner. Here Washington appears, not as a political genius, but as a symbol of unity around which the distraught Americans can rally. But he is more than a convenient meeting ground, for he possesses an instinct for public opinion and a knowledge of men that is invaluable to the other founders of the United States. While he lacked the vision of the theorist, he had the background of a hard bitten...