Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, Norman D. Hunt, deaf mute, was jealous of the attentions which his friend, Louis Coleman, deaf, showed his wife. Suspicious, he went to Louis Coleman and demanded in sign language: "Where were you at noon today?" "None of your business!" Coleman signalled back. Pulling a pistol, Deaf Mute Hunt shot Louis Coleman dead, marched to a police station, pushed a note across the sergeant's desk: "I shot a man on Monroe Street, [signed] Norman D. Hunt...
...until after he met up with Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves. Richard Hughes and Edmund Blunden at Oxford that his literary talent became widely recognized. A sometime theatrical cartoonist, ballad singer, actor, broadcaster, teacher, he now devotes all his time to writing. Other books: Dewer Rides, The Jealous Ghost, The English Captain, The Garden...
...young wife. Every time an officer enjoyed her favors a dish of fresh cucumbers would appear at table. The Colonel innocently complained about so many cucumbers, but one day an enormous dish was served up with his compliments. The officers choked with laughter. After the Russian Revolution, when the jealous greenhouse-keeper became executioner of the Tribunal of that town, whenever prisoners, especially officers, were condemned, he would read the sentence, load his gun, fire it straight between their eyes. But the cartridge was always a blank. After he had "laughed heartily over his joke, the prisoners would be disposed...
...Dublin newspapers to feature the murder-story as a testimony of Divine Wrath against evildoers. They think he is mad; by this time he obviously is. The man who murdered Teresa for divine reasons, and the man who now realizes that he murdered her only because of jealous love, make up a split personality that splits wider every minute...
Meanwhile Detective Lavan has discovered incriminating evidence against Ferriter, gives him a grilling. Ferriter promises to produce the real murderer before midnight. He tries to confess to a priest; to his horror finds that he, the jealous lover-murderer, no longer believes in God. He rushes to the slums to drink, confess to harlots. In a scene reminiscent of Dante's Inferno, Joyce's Ulysses, he confesses himself to one of three diseased harpies who play with his disintegrating personality the way vultures play with bones...