Word: feverish
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Harvard has clearly been moving in the last few months away from the function of education toward a state of confusion and feverish activity...
What they had left they spent with abandon. They knew that next year's income tax would make this year's look like a bright dime lost in a subway grating. Now they meant to have some fun. Stores were filled with feverish shoppers. Gift shops and silversmiths found business blooming. Chicago's nightclubs had their biggest night since Pearl Harbor. Most of the nation's theaters played to crowded houses...
...emphatic in his repudiation of the Hitlerian myth without being unfairly vindictive. Drawing his somewhat vague title from the letters of Richard Wagner, he points out clearly its appropriateness and the significance of its sourse. With a facile and sometimes flip pen, Viereck traces the origins of the feverish ideas of present-day Germany to the Romanticism of the last century and to even remoter sources of German character...
...Ellington notables as Ben Webster and Lawrence. Brown have been sitting in with the boys regularly--high tribute in itself. There are interesting soloists on every instrument, but at least when I was there Frankie led all the rest. Last Monday, after lending Rex Steward his trumpet for a feverish ten minutes, Frankie, who always takes the last solo on each number, improvised chorus after chorus with the full, rich tone he induces from his open horn. And Rex himself clambered halfway onto the bandstand to hear him better. As George Frazier of the Herald would say, it was "jazz...
...father, a British foreign service attache, had paddled away from the sinking Lady Hawkins with Janet in his arms and his wife struggling beside him. When Janet became feverish, Chief Officer Kelly gave her a spoonful of brandy. Janet began to laugh. Her shipmates laughed with her-the only time they laughed. Most of the time they prayed. For five days the little company floated on the Atlantic, until the S.S. Coamo spotted them...