Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from one Philadelphia school "because of an incident too scandalous to mention." Always Mother Hewitt had striven to break "certain unfortunate little habits" in Ann. A statement from the attending physician supported her assertion that Ann had been born two months prematurely, weighing only 3 1/2 lb., in the feverish Paris of August 1914, that only exceptional motherly care had kept her alive. How could she be accused of seeking her daughter's income after she had spent large sums to establish Ann's legitimacy in court when Father Hewitt's brothers and sisters contested his will...
...Most feverish and pulse-quickening serious rumor of the week: His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have been warned that if Proposal 4A is put into effect, Benito Mussolini will say "Yes" to the 125 fanatical young aviators who have asked whether they may strike a suicidal blow for Italy by diving 125 planes each loaded with a bomb into 125 ships of the British Royal Navy which now has some 200 ships in the Mediterranean...
...developed grandiose poetic projects, studied the Bible and Poe, aspired to be both a major prophet and an independent thinker. Half-starved while attending an art institute in Chicago, he fled to New York, where he peddled his poems on the street at 2? apiece. Lonely, celibate, driven by feverish ambition, he tramped through the country, begging, sometimes reading and selling his poems, returned to Springfield where he published an incoherent newspaper and gave Anti-Saloon League lectures...
...handsome, moody lad who had such a momentous dream was Kingsley Fairbridge, 12-year-old son of a British surveyor in Rhodesia. The year: 1897. For two days he had been camping on the veldt without food when, cresting a hill, he had a feverish vision. The veldt was transformed into fertile farms, peopled by British colonists. Some day, somehow, he resolved, he would bring those farmers to Rhodesia...
Realistically aware that every war makes its own rules as it progresses, Maryland's Tydings, an A. E. F. Lieutenant Colonel, threw some cold water on his feverish colleagues: "The only way by which we can stay out of war, if this philosophy is sound, is to have no shipping whatsoever. . . . What we do, well intentioned though it is, is apt to degenerate into a set of New Year's resolutions, which will be broken about as soon as war is declared...