Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent flight of Dr. John F. Condon, Bronx educator and famous go-between throughout the Lindbergh case, is highly significant. Of especial interest is the fact that, like Colonel Lindbergh, Condon has chosen to fade from the picture just as national excitement and feeling has reached a fever pitch over the impending execution of Hauptmann. In the case of the Lindbergh family one may understand their desire to wait until the whole affair has blown over before returning to the scene. Their presence here would but aggravate a situation already charged with hysteria and fanned to white heat...
Disease, death, disappointment and a great deal of hope stirred the meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists in Manhattan last week. President Karl Friederich Meyer could not attend. Director and bacteriologist of University of California's Hooper Foundation, Professor Meyer, 51, lay ill with parrot fever, which he had contracted while studying that disease...
...Upon learning that an epidemic of scarlet fever caused a quarantine of schools in Genesee and Genesee Depot, Wis., whence Chicago gets several thousand quarts of certified milk each day, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Niels Bundesen last week summarily forbade Genesee milk to enter Chicago...
Ever since the early Cubists first caught the fever in 1910, African Negro sculpture has had an important influence on modern artists. In recent months first-rate exhibitions of this art have been held in Manhattan, Paris, London (TIME, April 119th). Plain gallery-goers sometimes find it difficult to understand much of an art which has nothing whatever to do with the civilized European concept of Beauty, but which stems directly from the basic emotion of fear. But one fact is plain to all eyes: in any showing of African art the bronzes and carvings of the vanished Kingdom...
...sanity hearing. When Ablino Oley, 14, called her 91-year-old husband Jake a hunchback a year ago, Mrs. Boegler wrote Mrs. Oley, "Tonight I will pray to God to cause your boy to suffer great agony. I'll ask God to burn him with fever and lay the hand of death upon him." Ablino died. When Mrs. Will Ray cut off the Boeglers' cream supply, Mrs. Boegler wrote her, "I will pray for your hogs to get sick and die." The hogs died. Mrs. Boegler warned Mrs. Ray that she and her husband would get sick...