Word: feverish
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...American feminine element has an important viewpoint; we must address ourselves particularly to it. ... It is vital that young, good-looking and active speakers be sent to the United States instead of unhealthy, decrepit, tired, feverish, wornout, coughing and trembling ancients bound into frock coats. These have to be put to bed upon their arrival with hot water bottles at their feet, have to be awakened just in time for a conference, and when rushed to a station thousands of precautions have to be taken. That is why France is pictured as a tired, worn-out country...
...bankers, and the pay of his own soldiers, were paid on the nail no matter how long school teachers, or government contractors might have to wait for their money. Cubans insist and most U. S. bankers agree that the June 30 debt payment cannot be met. Despite feverish scouring of the treasury Army pay is already in arrears...
...great outdoors. The Detroit Free Press gave him a weekly column for a pulpit. Now William C. Sowell has given him a whole magazine. In the first (March) issue of The Michigan Sportsman Editor Van Coevering foresees Depression ending with "America's mills again . . . operating at feverish heat, fiendish efficiency." Then men & women, if they are not to be reduced to "pill-fed automatons," will need escape to woods and lakes. His program: Co-operation between sportsman and farmer, a united front behind the formulation of sound State water, wildlife, tourist & resort policies...
...salaries of civil servants receiving more than $470 yearly. Meeting in caucus, the Socialist Party split, the majority faction bolting away from Party Leader Leon Blum. Famed as a Cabinet killer, M. Blum overthrew Premiers Herriot and Paul-Boncour. He favored overthrowing Premier Daladier last week. Paris grew feverish with excitement as midnight neared. The last day for voting credits to tide the Cabinet through March had come. Before midnight Premier Daladier knew that he must either win a vote of confidence or fall...
...character is in strange contrast to the feverish managerial gibberings which have attended his death. The field is wide open for trenchant innuendo. His handlers had little to win, much to lose by a victory over Carnera. He was allowed to enter the ring after a brief training period of ten days which followed all attack of influenza. The association of these two facts admittedly proves nothing; according to medical advices it had nothing to do with the boxer's death. But it focuses an ugly light on the managerial claim, that "He had to die to prove he wasn...