Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world of sweetness and leisure. On the contrary, their nerves were strained by 52 weeks of routs, jours, fashionable events of all sorts and by problems of a private nature. Their moods, which hinged on the more or less tolerable torment of the tightly laced corset . . . were feverish, stormy, or even worse...
Connie Burwell (who studied at the University of Heidelberg after she finished at Sweet Briar) was inside Germany all during the feverish war preparations of 1937-1938-saw Hitler, Himmler, Goring, Goebbels many times-made notes of everything she saw and heard, tore them into strips, smuggled them out of. Germany in her shoes under the noses of the Gestapo...
...extra tone - he tosses in comments on Beethoven, Brahms, Renoir and Keats. Finally, even the point of Sons and Sol diers is feeble: for a real mother to affirm life after having lived it would mean something; but a young girl's affirmation, on the basis of her feverish dreams, lacks the authority of experience...
...started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough waterfront cafes. Last week Valdes finished off an eight-week run at La Conga, where he made such a hit that one of the nightly duties of the headwaiter was to wipe off the lipstick feverish women had implanted on his photograph in the lobby...
Talented Actor George Coulouris (Julius Caesar, Watch on the Rhine) plays Richard as if he were just a matter of feverish impatience and petty willfulness, ignores his sardonic mind, his serpentine guile, his high pride of villainy. Jerky and rapid of speech, Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame-like in movement, he exudes evil rather than expresses it. He is too unimpressive for a figure that has to carry the whole load of the play on his crooked back...