Word: feverishness
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...pace in Manhattan is more feverish and, since TV made his face familiar, has become increasingly unpleasant. "I made my living for years just talking about things I bumped into in life when I was rubbing elbows with real people," he says. "But no more. Every time I go anywhere now it's all phonied up. The minute I walk in, it's 'There's Arthur Godfrey! There...
...many a whole field produces. Within weeks, the town of Beaumont was a madhouse of tents, saloons, lean-tos and one-room shacks; land on the dome was selling for as much as $1,000,000 an acre, and derricks were rising, leg to leg, in a confused and feverish race for riches...
Alina, a sturdy, black peasant girl, had been paralyzed in both legs for six months or more. One day she became feverish and lapsed into a coma. Three days later she stiffened and turned cold; then the wake began. One ancient Haitian custom was omitted: no hill-country witch doctor poisoned her or stabbed her to make sure that she would never become a zombi...
...movie industry's vast ballyhoo machinery whirred into high gear this week to support a feverish crusade. Its goal: repeal of the 20% federal tax on movie admissions...
...Baby Makes Three (Columbia) drives Robert Young and Barbara Hale to some witless and feverish activity over prospective parenthood. The opening shots, in which a pregnant bride faints at the altar, are something of a novelty. After that, the movie works furiously to overcome its initial breach of Hollywood convention. Some faint sparkle radiates from the racy photography, Robert Young's owl-like pantomime and Robert Hutton's cagey portrayal of a sissified rich boy. But the picture gets its most memorable effects from a series of stylish cocktail-hour gowns...