Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...listeners radio's first eyewitness blow-by-blow account of a full-dress air battle. Nervous, wiry, a pilot himself, Gardner patrolled the English Coast with a recording van for a solid week before he happened upon an air fight off the chalk cliffs of Dover. For nine frantic minutes, Gardner talked into his recording machine, then whirled off to London to persuade the Ministry of Information to issue a bulletin on the raid an hour earlier than usual. Dramatic enough to galvanize even the most stolid Britisher, the Gardner broadcast wound up in fine sporting style with...
...Wendell Willkie had done to Mr. Roosevelt's thoughts about Term III. Whatever the answer (the U. S. will have it after the Democrats convene July 15), G. 0. P.'s Willkie turned the last trace of Third Term opposition in the Democratic Party into a frantic demand that Mr. Roosevelt run. Even old Jack Garner, who seldom forgives and never forgets, sadly made up his mind that Franklin Roosevelt was the only Democrat who could beat this man Willkie. Janizaries like Tom Corcoran (see p. 53) trumpeted that Mr. Roosevelt now had no choice left; party hacks...
...letters home, of which this volume is a selection. The stunts, it is obvious, became more & more staged, more & more weary, as time went on. Yet the naivete which made it possible for him to invent them was also nearly great enough to exonerate him of their ridiculousness, their frantic commercialism. His last stunt - a voyage across the Pacific in a Chinese junk, which ended somewhere at sea - was of a piece with all the rest...
...patient. For a week he prowled in search of one. One evening, in a Russian cafe, he noticed a man playing Otchi Tchornyia on the guitar. "Not only his face muscles, but his whole body writhed," said Dr. de Savitsch, "and I saw him make a frantic clutch at the seat of his pants. I could hardly wait for the music to stop. With little effort I persuaded the man to let me examine him ... in the washroom. It was as fine a case of strangulated hemorrhoids as any intern in surgery could wish, and I rushed...
...traveled 200 yards, coxswains were busy bailing. Presently the Washington boatload began slowly to sink like the orchestra in Radio City's Music Hall. Official launches scurried to the rescue, scurried on to rescue Syracuse, Columbia, California. Cornell and Navy managed to stay afloat for nearly a mile. Frantic horn-tooting and whistle-blowing finally notified them that the race had been called...