Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspapers depend on the telephone perhaps more than any industry for the swift transmission of their business. Newspapermen, often harried frantic in attempts to get the office or the information centre of a story close to edition time, were quick to pick up last week a brief story about Harry Kaufman, leading Elk. Mr. Kaufman, lacking a nickel, became infuriated because he could not attract central's attention from a Manhattan pay station booth. He wrenched off the mouthpiece; twisted the receiver hook; all but tore the box from the wall...
Paradise. In a small Ohio town, life was miserable for Winnie Elder; her family hated her because she was not married. Frantic, she went to New York. Proudly she returned in some months with the body of her husband in a coffin. An inquisitive aunt nosed out the news it was not her husband, but a body she bought at the morgue. Some potent playing by Lillian Foster did not suffice to make a rigidly effective whole...
...frantic wire to Mr. Morse revealed that for want of a name the mummies hadn't the ghost of a chance of getting into Plymouth...
...sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck. Hooked stick is shorter this year, limited to 53 inches, instead of 60. Overtime allowance has been cut from 20 to 10 minutes. Abolished are penalty free shots. There are other minor changes. Otherwise the professional hockey season opened last week to frantic crowds in U. S. and Canadian cities much as it closed last April when Ottawa won the world's championship from Boston...
...BEGINNERS-Henry Kitchell Webster-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Edward Patterson, 45, married, father of Edith and Edward, suddenly breaks with a frantic gesture out of the insurance business by means of which he has been supporting his family in good style. Eagerness for variety makes him go so far as to try to sell a mechanical device for automobiles. Poor returns on this venture make it necessary for his daughter to leave school, his son to work through college. Edward Patterson gives up. He makes amends to his wife who resents his incipient affair with Ruth Ingraham, returns to insurance selling...