Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the plodding champion of the Roosevelt colors was leading by several lengths. The young challenger was gaining ground, when he suddenly had to go to bed with stomachache & fever. His doctor declared that when the governor was in Louisville his drinking water was poisoned. To gather himself for the stretch run this week and next, he retired by ambulance to the executive mansion at Frankfort over the weekend while Candidate Barkley paused for breath at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville. Mrs. Chandler and Daughters Mimi and Marcella pinch-hit at Happy's meetings. Said loyal Mrs. Chandler...
Seven months ago Alfred joined the class and began turning out pictures at the rate of three a day. He ran home from P.S. 42, where he was in the fourth grade (he would have skipped a grade except that he got scarlet fever), drank a glass of milk, and hurried across the street to paint, using an old muffin tin for a palette. "His talent," said his awed teacher, Philip Bibel, "is accompanied by the most amazing energy I have ever encountered.'' He painted cowboys, G-Men, scenes from movies, elevated trains, football players, his playmates, views...
Died. Jack Dunn, 21, sleek, handsome British Olympic skater; of terminal pneumonia brought on by tularemia (also known as deer fly or rabbit fever); in Hollywood. Last month he got his first part-to play Rudolph Valentino in a scheduled cinema on the life of the late star, who died just as unexpectedly twelve years...
...distant relatives is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was born a Protestant, married a handsome merchant, William Seton, bore him five children. They went to Italy to improve his frail health, instead were taken off their ship at Livorno and quarantined in a lazaretto because yellow fever had broken out before they left Manhattan. Cold, underfed, Elizabeth made no complaint but prayed in their dungeon while in the next room hard-bitten sailors cursed and killed themselves. When they were released her husband died. Widowed Elizabeth Seton became a convert to Catholicism. Eventually, as the result of persecutions by her onetime...
...news from Africa is not tiptop. Ethiopian "bandits" go on "murdering" generals and bishops, The road-building fever has suddenly abated, throwing out of work 15,000 whites in a land of guerillas and flies, Africa will fix the white intruders and take care of her own in the long run. The cotton of Lake Tana has too short a fibre; the coffee of Harar costs more than Brazil; and it seems that King Tut and his gang sifted every grain of gold out of Ethiopia...