Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doesn't it seem that perhaps this is going a bit too far? Signs of feverish optimism and long odds are still a long way in the future unless the undergraduate body in general has completely ignored the snags which are so liable to rise in the path of any team undertaking a schedule such as Harvard's. If passing comments heard around Cambridge may be taken as indicative of undergraduate attitude, it is safe to say that the optimism which prevails around these parts, far from bordering on the hysterical, is rather one of hope. And it should remain...
...cinemactors, with Equity approval, met with delegates of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, hitherto haughtily oblivious of Equity demands. The actors: Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Edmund Lowe, Noah Beery, Louise Dresser, Ralph Forbes. Though the meetings were secret, observers were cheered by signs of arbitration after weeks of feverish, noisy invective...
...feverish were New York crowds to see the Bremen during the four days she was in port that even the 70,000 passes which the North German Lloyd issued were not enough. Thousands of pink pier passes were forged, sold to Brooklyn crowds for $1 each...
...libel. Harper & Bros., publishers of the novel, moved that Mrs. Lewisohn's complaint be dismissed. Last week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted and disappointed conceit against an individual in particular and society and law generally, and cannot seriously affect the opinion of rational individuals, yet since the words are patently libellous per se, and obviously refer to the plaintiff, despite the adroit generalizations used, and because a publication...
...Story. The net effect is feverish horror. Surcease is afforded bY Paul's leave, by a stolen feast, by the men's comradeship, by their tender care of the absurdly young recruits, by mild affairs with several motherly prostitutes...