Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Paris, last week, came reports of feverish activity around the Place Vendôme and, particularly, along that brief but important, severe but incredibly expensive street known as the Rue de la Paix. Crowds milled about sternly-guarded doorways; ultra-fashionable women sought admission as to the most coveted box at the Opera; Parisian celebrities entered with an air of triumph, emerged with subdued cries...
...Paris in quarters much too large for them. One day later, Captain Otto Schwamberger, master of the Hamburg, sailed on his ship in quarters much too small for him. Reason: Mr. and Mrs. Fleischmann missed the Paris, watched three little Fleischmanns with governess, family trunks, sail without them. A feverish search for reservations on following boats was unavailing. Obligingly, Capt. Schwamberger gave up his suite to pursuing parents...
...rather, the act making it possible, is salient in the public mind. A treasury which is able to slice two hundred million dollars from federal taxes hardly needs how the income derived from the automobile war tax which belongs anyway to that strange series growths orginating in the feverish days of 1917 along with wheatless days, government ownership, and Thritt Stamps Too small to be of genuine importance in the Treasury, yet large enough to be an annoyance to purchasers of everything massed in the category of luxuries by the wartime administrators, war taxes have been allowed to exist...
Another contradiction: 1) "In Russia . . . where are the rich? There are none. And where the groveling, feverish poor? Gone also. . . . You cannot feel want here any more than you can feel material luxury, they are not," but 2) "Prices of everything were outrageously high, salaries could not compare with what things cost and there was never enough of anything, neither food nor entertainment, nor what you would...
...first time in history, without the feverish stimulus of war, airplane factories are buzzing, lathes are churning, propellers are spinning. Safely ensconced behind the spectacular flights that jostle one another on the front pages of the newspapers, the airplane industry is humming with orders. The common people are taking...