Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because all good parents are jealous of the health of their young, a house guest in a married home usually seeks to ingratiate himself by his knowing and considerate treatment of the babies with which it is blessed. He is aware, if his polish is not sadly at fault, that the art of playing with an infant is to amuse without exciting it; to lull it into a state of somnolence, and, after it is asleep, to walk on tiptoes and refrain from loud talk, from playing the phonograph...
...also done something in the opposite direction. From the very magnitude of the evil has sprung a reaction. Numerous indications show that in many colleges many students--both players and non-players--are renouncing the foolish idolatry of the game, and no longer worship in abject humility before the jealous gods of football. This reaction is especially strong at Harvard...
Then it is Helen who is more inclined to look with favor on Orestes than is Menelaus-and Hermione grows jealous, for Helen is still Helen. The last scene is laid as Telemachus comes to the house seeking tidings of his father, Odysseus. Helen gives him a cup of wine. "He took it from her, his hand touched hers, and she smiled at him. It was as she had said; he forgot all his sorrows-as it seemed, forever. But the magic, he knew, was not in the wine...
...buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator. His mother was with him but she is a great sport and didn't "worry." She caught even bigger fish than he did. She helped him write this book, which won't make any one jealous, because he tells it all very calmly, like a scientist, and doesn't rub it in how lucky he was to go to school at sea last winter...
Fame and glory which follow close upon the flying heels of the successful athlete are often accompanied by jealous criticism. Such is the fate of Paavo Nurmi who comes to the Stadium on Friday for his last great race in America. Although he has been absolved technically from the recent charges made against him, his name is still under the shadow of abuse. The cry of graft cannot be stilled as instantly as it was raised...