Word: fever
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...bulletin board, and I had to fight my way through cardboard and scotch tape to get out of the front door. On the way out I noticed one girl had lost her chances when her campaign balloon was burst by a cigarette. All over the Quadrangle election fever was running high...
...politely: "Giants ahead, six to nothing," and hung up. Once more the U.S. celebrated the seven days of the long lunch hour, the surreptitious telephone call, the quick office bet, and-to feverish New Yorkers-of the hunt for the ducat, the pasteboard, the seat at the game. BASEBALL FEVER, the sports pages dutifully reported, GRIPPED THE COUNTRY...
...seldom got the fever so acutely or fallen so wildly in love with one team. The Giants' astounding last-second playoff victory over Brooklyn threatened to make the World Series itself an anticlimax. But it also captured the nation's imagination, and when the Giants' Monte Irvin stole home in the first inning of the first game (see SPORT), the Series was suddenly exciting...
Munro's team suffers from the loss through graduation of last year's captain and left inside Ted Wolf and all-American right inside Charlie Weiss. Vern Drehmel, last year's high scorer, cannot compete because he had rheumatic fever over the summer, and star outside Ben Goldstoin and defense stalwart Pants pantaleoni are both unable to play because of too much work. Halfback Latsi Berger is still out with a trick knee, but should be back in action again by the end of the week...
Baseball, the movie producers have discovered, occupies the thoughts of millions of Americans during the fall of every year. Two years ago M.G.M. capitalized on this autumn fever with a picture called "It Happens Every Spring," and since then has been trying to duplicate its enormous success...