Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write of the rich and varied Southern life that is sufficiently exciting without it. But the story deals with a harrowing event, perhaps the most harrowing event in the social history of the United States and it has a melodramatic fascination for first novelists and their readers as feverish and unhealthy as the event they celebrate...
...Defense Supplies Corp., through the National Wool Marketing Corp., last week began unloading its portion of the null stockpile of foreign wools stored in U.S. warehouses. Despite the suggestion of some of the more feverish U.S. woolgrowers that the enormous stock be tossed into the sea in a modern version of the Boston Tea Party the liquidation was conducted along orthodox lines. With great dignity N.W.M.C. held a two-day auction in Boston, sold 23 million Ib. of wool at prices below the cost of homegrown wools. In Salt Lake City, the National Wool Growers Association was grimly...
This was no feverish campaign special. Four reporters were aboard, but no brain-trusters. There were no mammoth prearranged parades or bunting-draped cities. Like the other passengers, Willkie took his meals in the diner, spent most of his spare hours at his favorite pastime- talking and arguing with a few friends...
Francis Xavier Bushman, 60-year-old matinee idol, got his first good film part in 15 years-playing Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch in the forthcoming Wilson. Bushman was a feverish Romeo in Hollywood's first Shakespeare (1916), a furious Messala in Ben Hur (1923), claims to have made and spent...
...powerful newcomer has arisen in the U.S. wholesale grocery business. Under the very noses of the alpaca-sleeved grocer barons, dapper, cold-eyed Nathan Cummings, 47, has fashioned himself a duchy. Cummings, boss of Chicago and Baltimore's Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp., wound up in twelve hours of feverish trading a deal that made him a real power in the business...