Word: feverish
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...answer comes from the mouth of a tuberculous young genius (Burgess Meredith) who visits the Jacklins' home to look at their pictures, rages against the folly of war, is stricken by one of his mysterious headaches. In a trance, he echoes the dying poet's feverish appeal for Naomi's forgiveness, finishes the verse. Mrs. Jacklin realizes that all her life since the War has been an empty acceptance of the "second best...
...came to an Iron fence. The regularity of it intrigued him. After a feverish search about the sidewalk he found a small stick. Now he walked along the other side of the walk, tapping every other bar with his stick. The metallic clicking brought a gleam of satisfaction to his deep, intelligent eyes. Ah, this indeed is pleasure...
...give a straightforward diagnosis; while laymen, confronted by the nightmare inconsequence of such surrealist pictures as Salvador Dali's (TIME, Nov. 26), are amused, bewildered or alarmed. But surrealism has its uses. In I Am Your Brother Author Marlowe has made it work for him, shows through this feverish medium a story distorted into real horror. One reason why such gruesome tales as Dracula are still traditional is because the old-fashioned paraphernalia have not been improved on. Author Marlowe shows a new way to make flesh creep...
Calm and cool amidst the feverish preparations for the coming of the country's Chief Executive, Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, of the Yard Police, lends a reassuring and accustomed note to the great influx of assorted government agents, uniformed, plain clothed, and garbed in a variety of terrifying disguises...
...last autumn Publisher William Randolph Hearst discovered Henry in the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, promptly called for a secretary, a cablegram blank. Few hours later in Manhattan Hearst's syndicate chief, Joseph Vincent Connolly, received word: "Get Henry." He took the next train for Madison, Wis. There in a feverish half-hour between trains he signed Carl Anderson to a fat contract with King Features Syndicate...