Word: fever
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...Punjab, athwart the historic northern invasion route, has long been India's political thermometer. Last week it read "high fever." In Lahore, Amritsar, Rawalpindi and over the intervening countryside, Moslems, Sikhs and Hindus slew and burned in wholesale lawlessness unsurpassed in British India in 90 years...
...December, after bouncing out of a well-heated studio into windy Rockefeller Plaza without coat or hat, Toscanini caught a cold. He insisted, despite a fever, on conducting his Sunday broadcast. Against his wishes, a doctor was called, and bundled the Maestro into bed. The doctor made Toscanini cancel his scheduled flight to Milan to open the La Scala opera season. Toscanini is fatalistic about death-he believes he will probably be killed in an accident-and scorns such medical precautions. Says he: "If you don't want to be sick, you don't have to be sick...
From a directorial standpoint, too, the production was outstanding Timing in most cases was little short of phenomenal for amateurs. The only flaws which could stand correcting are some muddled first-scene calls with a resulting lack of expectancy for Lefty, too-long intermissions which let the audience fever down, and a rather rushed reception to the news of Lefty's death at the close...
...until the late 1920s that an experimental animal, the rhesus monkey, was found susceptible to yellow fever...
...seemed to care least how much he spent was rival Movie Tycoon Harry M. Warner. He bought the apple of L.B.'s eye, a soft-eyed filly named Honeymoon, for $135,000. Then Warner, afflicted with the same fever Mayer once had, paid the evening's top price-$200,000-for Stepfather, a Kentucky Derby hopeful...