Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dances and costumes. Evergreen even has a backstage plot. It shows its heroine, the ambitious daughter of a retired stage favorite, becoming a star by pretending to be her mother. The impersonation, carried on to the detriment of her own intrigue with a young press agent and to the feverish anxiety of her stage manager (Sonnie Hale), ends when, on a gala opening night, she removes her white wig and does a modern dance routine which first alarms, then enchants her audience...
From Berlin unlimited funds and the feverish energy of Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels have impinged for months like blazing searchlights upon the Saar. If what is called Nazi cannot win this nearby victory, what foreign victory can it ever win? To the disgust of millions of Germans, Der Führer has not kept his campaign promises openly to rupture the Treaty of Versailles. He has not won for Germany a single scrap of territory, not even Danzig, much less the Polish Corridor. If the Saar, which, before Hitler, was considered all but in Germany...
Hastily whipped together and jammed through to passage in the feverish closing days of the last Congress, the Act provided for compulsory pensioning of all U. S. railroad employes-about 1,000,000. Workers were to contribute one-third, employers two-thirds to a pension fund administered by a Federal Board, appointed by the President. Retirement was to be compulsory at 65 except in special instances. First payments into the fund were scheduled...
...plain-looking teacher named Margaret Grain. Their unusual romance was revealed to the jury of anthracite miners in terms of 172 letters written by Edwards to Miss Grain after he returned to Edwardsville. Mostly too hot for even sexational newspapers to handle, the letters described a physical attachment so feverish and inordinate that Edwards' father felt obliged to leave the courtroom while the assistant district attorney was sonorously reading them. As for Edwards, he offered to plead guilty and throw himself on the court's mercy if the letter-reading ordeal could be stopped...
...embrace of a grinning stranger. Eadie retaliates in kind when old T. R. is about to sail on the Aquitania for an international gathering. In a split second she appears in his cabin in her underclothes, gives him a mighty hug while press photographers do the rest. All this feverish by-play ends in a curious reconciliation scene. Eadie gets drunk. To sober her up, young T. R. Paige pops her under a shower, proposes for the second time...