Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superintendent. R. Emmet O'Malley, who has certain powers over General American, grew exceedingly alarmed, loudly called the whole deal a brazen violation of Texas insurance laws, declared he would ask the Texas insurance superintendent to join him in court action to set it aside. Moreover, said the jealous Missourian, Mr. Milton had coerced the Texans into buying the two companies by threats that control would otherwise be sold to "undesirable" persons. Meantime, Mr. Milton, having made a clear $830,000 profit for his investment trust on the deal, departed on a Bermuda vacation...
Ganso's nudes are more frankly sensuous than those of Pascin, his color is stronger, his line less subtle. Jealous rivals have called him the "Rembrandt of barroom decorators."* As a matter of fact, no barroom yet boasts a Ganso nude, and Artist Ganso is quite as interested in painting the rolling hills, farms and orchards of Woodstock, N. Y., where he spends his summers, as he is in the lush ladies who pose for him in the winter time in Manhattan...
...excitable Mohammedan had come to believe that Mrs. Ruxton, of whose morals as a waitress he was particularly well aware, was now carrying on with a young lawyer in the Town Clerk's office. Therefore Dr. Ruxton encircled his wife's neck with strong, jealous fingers and, as her screams became faint gurgles and she died of strangulation, the Mohammedan looked up to find staring at him in petrified horror the pretty nurse of his three small children, Mary Jane Rogerson...
...State, the Administration has practically committed the government to the expenditure of $200,000,000--the sum necessary to complete the canal. This means that the executive can on his own authority make any appropriations whatsoever, if he can get his hands on a small retaining fee. Jealous of his new money authority, he seems inclined to resent having to share it with Congress. It is hard to interpret otherwise his declaration that seed-bill loans made by him require no additional revenues, but loans made by Congress must be backed up by new taxes. As long as we have...
...attack in the 7-8 rout at the hands of the Elis last week. So Harvard's forward walls, uncoordinated though they are, may be able to outscore the Green, which has to get by the capable defense work of Thorny Brown and Jim Roberts, and after that the jealous net-tending of Ash Emerson...