Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Journal of a Crime (Warner). A jealous wife (Ruth Chatterton) shoots her husband's mistress. Thereafter, the husband (Adolphe Menjou) fixes her with a bilious eye, waiting for her to confess. When this happens, she goes mad and he feels sorry. When last seen the couple are on a terrace above the Mediterranean, he a misanthrope and she a crackpot, brooding harmlessly in deckchairs...
...present, necromancy has scored over the public. The American Press, however jealous of constitutional encroachments on its liberty, stands strangely apathetic to the Common Weal when threatened with loss of fat advertising contracts. Over three months have elapsed without action on the Bill, and daily it sinks further into the background as other issues arise to command the attention of the administration. In another three months of carefully regulated silence the Tugwell-Copeland Bill, like so many other good but "inopportune" measures, will die amidst the rejoicing of the quacks and their advertising confreres...
...summer (TIME, July 31, Aug. 7), and by Mrs. Slick who became Mrs. Urschel. Slick Oil has sold most of its output to Stanolind Crude Oil Purchasing Co. (Standard Oil of Indiana). In recent months, despite overproduction, other major oil companies have been seeking new crude sources. Oilmen are jealous of their reserves and no flush fields have been opened for several years. Last week Standard of New Jersey, through its mid-continent producing unit, Carter Oil Co., bought Slick-Urschel Oil and all its holdings for $5,000,000 cash (estimated...
...that any increase would be tolerated. The Senate, moreover, has been rather balky for the last few weeks, and has passed a bill restoring veteran's pensions and salaries to the government officials in spite of a threatened veto. If there is any power of which the Senate is jealous, it is their power in foreign affairs, and any attempt of the President to take upon himself part of this power will be strongly opposed...
...legality of contracts, all had been approved by that jealous guardian of the national purse, Comptroller General McCarl...