Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were vice and gambling so well protected. When the Boss needed money, his boys put a deeper bite on the brothel-keepers, bookies and crapshooters. Tom Pendergast, who made his town a trap for suckers, turned out to be one of the biggest suckers himself; as his horseplaying fever increased, he bet more than a million dollars in one year, lost as much...
...panic spread into the North and West. Labor leaders, anti-Wallace liberals and machine bosses broke out with anti-Truman fever. The fever, partly induced by disgruntlement over the Administration's blundering on Palestine, was especially virulent in such pivotal states as New York, Illinois and California. In these states even the best of local Democratic candidates had small hope of winning on a ticket topped by Harry Truman's name...
...Bank of New York survived the great danger. When a yellow fever epidemic struck the city in 1799, it moved from its Wall Street offices to temporary quarters in the open country (now Greenwich Village), then back to Wall Street. During the depression of 1907, a new customer rushed in with cash withdrawn from other banks and nervously asked if his money would be safe. The cashier merely nodded towards the plaque of Hamilton on the wall. "I judge you've been through several panics," said the customer-and deposited more than $1,000,000. The trust was well...
Sacred & Profane. Mad Lord Orris welcomes poachers and bill collectors with an exquisite bow and regrets profusely that he has only rabbits to offer them. Even the puritanical mailman, who writes religious poetry, gets spring fever so badly that he puts his pen to a theme which he considers "profane"-his wife...
TIME gave the circumstances of his death: "Mr. Coolidge sat talking with Secretary Ross-about the Plymouth place, last year's pa'tridge shooting, hay fever. ... He evened up the pens on the desk. He went 'down cellar,' watched the furnace man shovel coal. About noon he disappeared upstairs, presumably to shave, as so many New Englanders do about midday...