Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order was also brought there. The Roman Catholic Church considers Negroes "the humble members of Christ's Church." And it prefers not to leave them entirely to their Protestant churches, in which "a diluted Christianity, by essence drab and drear and emasculated, has been made feverish with the emotionalism of experience meetings, revivals and raucous-voiced hymns."- So white priests have, for a half-century, been urged by their bishops to work among the Negroes. Roman Catholics do not urge blackamoors to join their Church. But they do, by exquisite example, show the worth of life within the Faith...
...which was turning year by year into more of a Roman holiday, and the concentration of interest on a single final game. Both principles were based solely on the welfare of the players and undergraduates, more and more of whose energies and enthusiasms have been expended in the feverish excitement attending not one football game, but practically every game on the schedule...
...their candidate for the Throne. The Archduke is only a third cousin once removed* of the late Emperor Karl I, and therefore has no "rights of succession," but he and his clever mother, the Archduchess Isabella, have adroitly built up the "Free Electoral Party" of Hungary to a feverish pitch of resolution in his support...
...persons found there, and padlocked the buildings in accordance with the not yet legalized decree suppressing anti-Fascist gatherings of every sort. Followed swiftly an order by Secretary General Turati that all Italians and foreigners must salute the Fascist banner whenever and wherever it is displayed. The Secretary, a feverish zealot, also began a tour of Italy to examine Fascists suspected of disloyalty to the party and eject them from it. Until this is complete no new members wil be received into Fascismo...
Marshal Josef Pilsudski, in his youth the shaggiest of rampant Socialists, later the organizer of armies which freed Poland during the World War, at present Dictator, Premier and War Minister of the Polish Republic, began seriously to consider last week whether a crown would not well become his politically feverish brow...