Word: feverish
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...strongest traditions on the Advocate, of which Marvin Barrett's "The Party" in the previous issue was a continuation. In this vein is "The Year the Rain Came to Deauville" by Curtis Thomas, a narrative-essay on the super-sophisticated international set which located its feverish merriments at the resort towns of France. The sub-title is "Or Why France Fell," and an Editor's Note gives a sociological twist probably not intended by the author, attributing the Fall to the decadence described in the article. Although "Deauville" is profuse in anecdote and characterization, it by no means unburdens itself...
Called "the Feverish Five" and "the non-union gang" by the Guild shop paper, the rebels fought back with charges of Guild intimidation, spying, "forced" repudiations of the A.F. of L., calculated suppression of unfavorable Guild news, union decisions based on an average 4% attendance at unit meetings, rigged elections and much else...
...British tweeds-continue. One recurrent pattern, frequently put on paper by Somerset Maugham, is that of the Britons in India or the Far East whose ultra-British correctness is suddenly upset by tropic passion. Last week in East Africa a typical Maughamesque story appeared to be coming to feverish life...
Kane's last word was "rosebud." Thompson (William Alland), the newsreel reporter, spends two feverish weeks in interviewing five people. Thompson talks to Kane's trollopish second wife (Dorothy Comingore), whom he tried to make a singer, finally established in the castle. There she passed the years assembling jigsaw puzzles until she walked out in boredom. Then there is Kane's rich guardian (George Coulouris) whom Kane hated; Kane's general manager (Everett Sloan), the sad, loyal, philosophical Jew who stuck by to the end; his former drama editor and best friend (Joseph Gotten) with whom...
...child seems to have a bad cold. He coughs & sneezes, his nose runs, so do his eyes. He is feverish. His neck is swollen, throat sore, tongue furry. At this point an experienced parent or doctor will suspect measles. After a blotchy red rash appears, the veriest tyro knows...