Word: feverish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...readings has revived a critics' wrangle over the quality of his acting. Opinions range, as they always have, from terrible to terrific. One noted Broadway director calls him "100% true-blue ham." But British Cinemogul Sir Alexander Korda insists that Laughton is a genius. "He has a feverish will for being superlatively good, a wonderful sincerity...
...whipping him in 38 implacable moves when Lasker overstepped his allowable time limit of 40 moves in 2¼ hours. Interest promptly centered on the match between Cuba's Rogelio Ortega and Najdorf, who moved into a technical position known to chessplayers as a Sicilian defense. After six feverish, hours and 60 moves, Najdorf finally gained an attacking advantage, turned it into a game-ending checkmate, and tied for top honors with Reshevsky...
Nell brought to the feverish, pale-blooded court of Charles a throb of natural England. The tales of her fishwife eloquence in high places made her-in a phrase that was intended as an epithet but became an accolade-"the darling strumpet of the crowd." Once, for instance, she was so proud of her new petticoats that right in the presence of the French ambassador, she lifted them one by one. In line of duty, the Frenchman sat down and wrote a report to his foreign minister back home: "I never in all my life saw such thorough cleanliness, neatness...
What was good about The Lady on the Rock was Author Arnold Schulman's vivid re-creation of an off-Broadway gin mill, a place alive with the yelps of syncopation, and feverish with the cynical wisecracks of men afraid they may have missed the last boat to Success. The story was the familiar one of the simpleton who, mistaking tolerance for affection and pity for love, belatedly learns the world's true opinion of him. It ended with the moron sprawled beaten and blubbering on a city street, abandoned by the girl who had been momentarily kind...
...plump, feverish worker, Fox has such a passion for anonymity that his name is not listed on the directory of the old Boston building where he has his headquarters. Inside, the office is piled high with paintings (Utrillo, Hassam, Dufy, etc.); in one corner is a grand piano which Fox likes to play. But his real fun is what he calls "dealing in special situations." By such deals, Fox has gained control of U.S. Leather Co., holds a dominating, if not controlling, interest in Western Union, has his finger in a handful of other companies, including one which is about...