Word: fretting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...post-depression history of the U. T. has been comparatively uneventful. Aside from some occasional woo-pitching in the balcony, and the universal gnashing of teeth at any appearance of Dick Powell or Robert Taylor, the management has had little to fret about. Vaudeville has gone and egg-throwing has become a national issue. Even the materialization of Ann Sheridan on the stage of the U. T. has become an unfulfilled memory...
...second lieutenant to major, he went to Narvik, was there long enough to be driven out. He planned to go to France, but France collapsed before he got there. Arriving in Egypt by way of Cape Town, he contracted malaria. Last week he alternated between a sweat and a fret in a military hospital...
...PATIENCE OF MAIGRET-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Two novelettes by a fantastic Frenchman. Inspector Maigret waits while subordinates make the hue and brass hats foam and fret. And presently the guillotine snicks a cervix or Devil's Island claims another Gaul...