Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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America is in a state of feverish excitement over the coming elections--the elections, of course, which are being held in England. Anyway thee is to be a general election in England, and there ought to be some interest in its results among the serious minded voters of America. There will be scant interest in the question of whether the "Die Hards" will control the Conservative party, nor yet over the Labor program. The average American knows little or nothing of the various British political parties and issues. He will notice only one thing--whether Lloyd George is to return...
...lurid sensationalism of the past few days; we all believe that the persons who fed the gaping maws of the press have committed the act unforgivable. Yet, is it not unfair to ascribe to the Jewish students alone, an account obviously concocted from various sources, colored by the feverish imagination of burrowing reporters, and from its very nature, purporting to sympathize with the "suppressed minority" whose suffering is "exposed"? I am particularly sorry that Mr. MacVeagh, in his righteous indignation, has fallen into that very ancient fallacy of crediting the whole Jewish race with the possible sins of its individuals...
Perhaps instructors are right in believing that the more work a student does in the feverish examination days the better for him. But we think that if the student is helped by a little information as to what is expected of him he will profit just as much and will expend as much energy...
...leave Abraham Lincoln unadorned, while claiming possession of the lady whom James Russell Lowell-according to the infamous and unauthorized interview of Julian Hawthorne-designated as "a snuffy old woman" the text of the old time headline writer, "What Next?" And for ourselves, a we read their feverish orations on this subject, destined to rend the air, we shall ask regarding their sources of dismay the same not impertinent question.-Boston Herald
...irregular verse pattern. The poem is a little too long for its purpose and contains too much exotic detail. The misspelled pomegranate might well be replaced by a homelier and more familiar apple. In general, the verse in this issue is too rhapsodic and aerial. I suppose that the feverish apostrophes to Beauty in the abstract are due to the limitations of Cambridge in the concrete...