Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged that Spanish nuns were raped indiscriminately in Asturias, that some 30 priests were butchered or "roasted alive slowly," that prisoners taken by the rebels were ordered to stand motionless for hours and shot when they finally moved. Most intriguing to the French investigator was the conduct of a "jealous Red Don Juan" finally captured by soldiers after he had sated his lust on numerous nuns...
...Sunstroke", a tale of how a man's momentary passion develops into an unrealizable love. "A Night At Sea", the meeting of two men who loved the same woman and the unexpected unemotional calm with which they discuss their life with her, and "A Simple Peasant", delineation of the jealous love of a simple peasant for the maid-servant and mistress of his master...
...them all, Professor Wiener's complaints would be in better order. The world has lost nothing. Harvard and Tech are perhaps guiltiest of all schools in buying outstanding talent from other institutions. Would Professor Wiener dare say that the men who replace these professors in the dispossessed schools are "jealous little men who hide themselves under the skirts of the cloak of scholarship?" No, Professor, we do not believe that after the few Jews and liberals depart the German faculties that only fools are left. The Jews and the liberals did not alone make Germany great...
...file suit for divorce. Said she: "It was my smile, my face, my figure-he said it was my radiant beauty-that first attracted Lauren Marquam. We were married last March 12. But the things that attracted Lauren attracted others too. The attentions I got made him impossibly jealous. Four days after we were married he was so jealous that he struck me. April 15 he hit me again and I left him. Think how jealous he would be now when I am to be modest about it, getting rather famous. My beauty means the end of my romance...
Orpheus, son of Apollo, played his lyre so well that birds and beasts were stilled and oak trees moved from their places to listen. Even Cerberus, the three-headed guardian of Hades, was lulled to sleep when the musician tried to bring Eurydice back from the dead. Jealous Thracian maidens killed Orpheus who was buried in Libethra where the nightingales are supposed to sing more sweetly than in any other part of Greece. He is remembered as the God of Music...