Word: feverish
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...Entirely fallacious," said he, "is the popular conception of the average college student as a gin-drinking, jazz-crazy, sex-feverish iconoclast with communistic leanings who scoffs at the ideas of an older generation. . . . Repeal apparently has had a sobering effect on youth. The jazz age is definitely gone...
...Home Office had not decided that here was a case for Sir Bernard Spilsbury interest might not have mounted to such feverish heights. Sir Bernard Spilsbury is Britain's living successor to mythical Sherlock Holmes. He specializes in macabre cases in which there seem to be no clues. Who but Sir Bernard could have brought to justice Norman Thorne who hanged his sweetheart and then buried her deep beneath the plowed topsoil of his farm? The latest achievement of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British readers were reminded by the million last week, was his feat in persuading a jury...
...artist is such a strange individual that we ought to be more carefully prepared for him than we are. There is something hectic about the atmosphere we find ourselves in, and we get uneasy. But this is an impressive story; even if it is a little feverish, it has power and authoriticity, and Mr. Ferris should, with more practice, develop his already considerable technical ability and talent...
...Philadelphia with 1,418 cases against 92 in the same week last year, Baltimore with 411 to 3, St. Louis with 468 to 17, Salt Lake City with 506 to 1. San Francisco with 105 to 4. Boston, Cincinnati, Omaha, Memphis, Atlanta, Little Rock also held many a pimply, feverish face. The schools of Waterville, N. Y. were closed because of measles. Dancer Agnes de Mille, Hollywood-bound from England to act in one of her Uncle Cecil's cinemas, arrived in Manhattan with a well-developed case...
Founded in 1862 three years after the fabulous Comstock Lode was opened in Nevada, the San Francisco Mining Exchange was the vortex of a feverish speculative mining boom that burned the land or two decades after the Civil War. During the 1870's while the Floods, Mackays, O'Briens, et al. were plucking some $750,000,000 in gold and silver from the Comstock Lode, police guarded the portals of Mining Exchange as the public clamored to buy, buy, buy. Bodie was the favorite with Eastern investors and caused them more grief than any other stock...