Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England has passed into my hands until all that is left outside are the courts of the Church. If we are to be happy, these too, must be given up to me. But it can not be while Thomas a Becket maintains the last word in this kingdom. Jealous of the power he has usurped, he will not step aside...
Armstrong is no jealous genius, for although practically all the top swingers of today recognize him as their leading tutor, he had nothing but praise for his tutees. He talked long about the various hot artists playing here and there. Sad and sentimental over the death of his friend, the immortal Bix Beiderbecke. Louis waxed enthusiastic about Benny Goodman. He admires him not only as a clarinet player but as a white band leader who has had the courage to hire Negro artists such as the pianist Teddy Wilson and the vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, who are to be heard...
...Dick Powell) is starring in his own extravaganza. One act is a burlesque of Mimi Caraway (Madelein'e Carroll), world's richest girl. Furious Mimi slaps Gary's face, then falls in love with him. He changes the offensive skit, but Mona Merrick (Alice Faye), his jealous leading lady, ad libs to make it worse than ever. Mimi then sets out to wreck the show and her romance, nearly succeeds...
Miscast as a morbidly jealous wife, Gertrude Lawrence manages to give her role a lynx-eyed dignity which is an excellent foil for the brittle vibrance of Miriam Hop kins...
...unions are now contesting for the mastery of U. S. Labor (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante). In Detroit and Cleveland, city labor councils voted to back the U. A. W. strike. But local councils are small potatoes in the A. F. of L. patch of jealous craft unions. First Federation gun was fired last week when the Cleveland heads of the Plumbers', Machinists', Electrical Workers' and Bricklayers' unions sent Fisher Superintendent Scafe a joint letter denouncing U. A. W. as an "outlaw'' union, demanding that the struck plant be reopened. Next...