Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is nothing long and virginal about Emil Ganso. He is short and 40, mustached, a great talker, a feverish cigaret-smoker, with thinning blond hair uncombed, big feet, unpressed suit, unpolished shoes. He lives at Woodstock, N. Y., where he is socially prominent, sometimes bakes a loaf of bread...
...course the Boswell sisters, and Conchita Montenegro, both alluring in their own particular ways, two or three other good acts, and a grand tableau of thirty glorified girls in half-piece bathing suits gamboling in a Louis XIV fountain while colored lights play and the orchestra hits a feverish crescendo. What more do you want for sixty cents...
...slowing up of the general tempo in Soviet Russia is evident at the present time since the set-back in the capitalistic world has removed the prime cause for feverish development and expansion," said Bruce Hopper, Assistant Professor of Government, and widely known interpreter of Russian political and economic theory, in an interview yesterday. "A possible explanation might be that the Bolsheviks, having stolen three years from history' by starting the Five Year Plan before the depression, now feel sufficiently strong to give themselves a taste of the better things of life...
...There has been a marked decline in the working strength of the Russian people owing to an inadequate supply of food. The depression in the rest of the world affords an opportunity for at least a temporary rest from the feverish activity of the last three years. The regarding of industrial production is being enforced by the government, as a political move for strengthening the popularity of the communist party, by giving the working classes a chance to regain their energy. It is also using this opportunity to improve general welfare," Professor Hopper continued...
Tariffs & Stickling. Neville Chamberlain, with his dark and feverish eyes, his husky voice and his cold, consuming passion for Empire, loomed last week as a Chancellor of the Exchequer not much less striking than crippled Philip Snowden, who as Lord Privy Seal now holds a mere sincere. Mr. Chamberlain affects neither the icy monocle of his Peace-Prizing halfbrother, Sir Austen, nor the blatant orchid boutonniere of their late, great father "Old Joe." Neville used to be Lord Mayor of Birmingham, the Chamberlain family bailiwick. Once before he was Chancellor of the Exchequer but so briefly that he never brought...