Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always has the American Philosophical Society, oldest U. S. learned society, propounded such weighty questions. Founded in 1744 by Benjamin Franklin, but fallen into decline, it was revived in 1767 by Philadelphia aristocrats who were jealous of another Franklin- Franklin-founded society, "The American Society for Promoting and Promulgating Useful Knowledge in Philadelphia." By January 1769 the city's store of useful knowledge had become considerable; its philosophical riches were gratifying. It occurred to Philadelphians that the two were not perforce antagonistic. The two societies joined, elected Franklin president, called themselves the American Philosophical Society...
...strangely enough, there is another group which casts jealous eyes upon the group privileged to give a junior prom. The sophomore class is raising its voice, and in eloquent tones deplores the lack of Terpsichorean favor from the weak-kneed principles of tradition. The class of 1931 demands a sophomore dance! Financially, a sophomore dance would be a greater failure than a junior prom. Two financial failures would be a cordial invitation to abolish the Freshman Jubilee...
...Scent Tycoon Coty, and he fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick to charge that because a newspaper in which he is largely interested, Le Quotidien, had made a joint circulation drive with La Gazette du Franc, he must have been at least privy to the swindle. Incomplete investigation seemed to show that this slur upon the Cognac Tycoon...
...Jealous Moon. Jane Cowl, indisputably among the more decorative of Manhattan's heroines, put herself to the perhaps necessary task of writing a play that would deserve embellishments by her upon the stage. The play was romantically sweet, about Pierrot, Columbine and Scaramouche. A designer of dolls, dreaming in far from Freudian fashion of their unfortunate intrigues, found advices in it for his own and on waking up for the epilogue, promised to be true to Judy. Jane Cowl was Judy and, in the doll-designer's dream, she played the part of Columbine...
...stars can write their own plays, though Noel Coward in This Year of Grace, Mae West in Diamond Lit and George M. Cohan, in past years, have been able to do so. Jane Cowl remains a better actress than a playwright. The Jealous Moon is so sweet that it excites a mental toothache...