Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been tried and acquitted by a bourgeois jury in Germany on charges of subversive journalism; had been told in Paris to get out or bury himself in a provincial town; had been active in revolutionary talking parties; had met, been insanely jealous of, broken with most other red leaders?except the German banker, Friedrich Engels, his disciple and friend until death. His trustiest weapons were always flaming words and inflaming ideas. Already, before reaching England, he had proclaimed his memorable: "Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world...
...Locarno, Switzerland, a traveling salesman got a divorce, married again. No.1 Wife, jealous, hearing that No. 2 was to have a baby, bought a huge bouquet of chrysanthemums, hid in it a lively venomous viper, mailed it to her hated rival. No. 2 opened the package, saw the snake (dead from cold in transit) drop out, gave premature birth to her baby. No. 1 Wife, cornered by police, confessed, will be tried for attempted murder...
...paraphrased Schopenhauer as "the World in Terms of Woman and Thought''; then proceeded to demonstrate the philosophy in person. His women he took indiscriminately from exclusive faculty circles or from the streets and brothels - one died of despair, another married out of spite, and yet another, jealous, ruined his career. As for thought, Sieburth dissipated it in drunken orgies, then gave it up as futile; killed himself...
Whimsy, put on the stage, makes demands on the imagination that no other theatrical mode dare ask. "The Jealous Moon" is whimsy in a fantastic Italian comic setting. Pierrot, Columbine and Harlequin are on the tiny stage of a travelling puppet show, and above them, in the miniature flies of the little stage, are the human selves of Jane Cowl, Philip Merivale and Guy Standing, who pull the strings of the dangling waggle-headed dolls. In the second act Peter Parrot, played by Philip Merivale, dreams all the company of puppeteers into the character and garden scene of the miniature...
...even resonant voice in the same ways that favored "The Road to Rome". His showman's speech before the curtain was lightly and beautifully done. Guy Standing put patchicolored Harlequin up beside the other two leading parts with a smooth and restrained performance. The principle of return dominates "The Jealous Moon" as it did "Prunella", the dean of all whimsicalities and most of Barrie. Shabby Pierrot, tended by the lustreless Vermilia for whom he once left Columbine, wears a flannel muffler as he sits in the garden where love had been. The garden is unkempt, and the leaves...