Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drug stores closed a total of 95 of the city's 1,400 stores. A gen eral strike in the hosiery plants in and around Reading pushed the Philadelphia area's sit-down total above 20. Strongly-unionized New York City was lightly touched by the fever. Determined to stamp it out before it could get a start, police arrested 60 sit-downers in Brook lyn's Jewish Hospital for ''endangering the lives of patients," 100 in a Woolworth 5? & 10? store for "disorderly conduct." Detroit, where the Sit-Down epidemic began, remained its seething...
...coroner, are delivered to a State anatomical board, of which Dr. Addinell Hewson, Professor of Anatomy in Temple University Dental School, is secretary. Further exceptions are made in the cases of bodies of U. S. soldiers, sailors and marines, Pennsylvania militiamen, and travelers; and persons dying of "smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, bubonic plague, typhus, yellow fever, cholera, leprosy, anthrax, glanders, erysipelas. Alcoholics, overweight bodies, mutilated or decomposed bodies must be buried by public authority because unfit...
Later he moved over to Superior State Teachers' College where he created the following statistics: 41 victories, 24 losses, 6 ties. An attack of Malta fever forced him to go to Florida. After basking in the sun a few years he went back into the harness at Miami University in 1935. At Miami his boys dropped three games the first year. He finished a 1936 "suicide" schedule watching his small squad topple Bucknell and Georgetown, tie Boston U, and lose by small margins to South Carolina and Mississippi...
...moving crookfest, with Barton MacLane and Glenda Farrell doing the detecting. Fortunately it is not marred by the tommygun histrionics usual in such pictures. A few witty cracks fly here and there to good effect, and on the whole the picture serves as a mild antidote to premature spring fever...
Tokyo dispatches last week reported such high "Rearmament fever" that Japanese miscreants were stealing knobs off doors, absconding with household plumbing, selling their metallic loot to the Imperial Government's munitions foundries & shipyards...