Possible Clues:

• Wanting massaging, by the sound of it
• Requiring massaging, by the sound of it
• For want of five hundred in a broken engine
• In want of massaging, according to rumour
• Crying out for reconditioned engine to tour Germany
• Necessitating
• Crying out for Edward holding ecstasy and gin cocktail
• Short of editor at work, cutting back information
• Requiring manipulation of the audience
• Bereft of