Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nakamura failed to enthuse over the matter of noses, said it would be "a feverish business," to risk insulting practically every parent in Nippon. Though the project fell through, some credit should be given Writers Haight and Jones for their pioneer work in the movement...
...attract attention and to be a conspicuous figure among one's fellow men is undoubtedly one of the most fundamental and primitive reactions of the race, and until comparatively recent times the college student has been singularly fortunate in the achievement of such preeminence. But of late years the feverish exploitation of gin, necking, and sartorial eccentricities has been to no avail against the far more adroit advertising of Masons, Elks and the Ku Klux Klan, and the unfortunate collegian is faced with the possibility of being recognized by the public in all his shame as a perfectly normal individual...
...which deserves serious attention--it is what ex-President Hadley of Yale has called "the increasing demand for ill-considered legislation, and the increasing readiness of would be reformers to rely on authority rather than on public sentiment for securing their ends." Multitudes of well-meaning people have a feverish desire to reform everything and everybody by law. They seem to place some divine reliance in a statute. Once it is enacted, it is often forgotten or neglected in the zeal to enact another. As a nation we are suffering from over-legislation. Every two years the various State legislatures...
...remaining four are of lesser timber. "Holiday in Buenos Aires" describes that city in the sixties. "The Devil in Pago Chico" is the tale of a fire in the pampas grass. "Rosaura" is a cruelly sensitive story of a young girl's hopeless love and suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites...
With these activities in mind, soothingly counselled the sage Manchester Guardian: "Churchill and his school do not understand the changes that have lately come about in India and Egypt. They think of Kipling's India, but that is as dead as mutton. In its place stands a disorganized, feverish mass of people. . . . determined to manage their own affairs...