Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme of the scion of two ancient, rich and grotesquely conservative lines (Richard Arlen) who weds a chorine, Daisy (Nancy Carroll), and takes her back to the ancestral mansion. Smooth sequence, good photography, competent acting, have not resuscitated this frail, old plot. The dowager mother (Pauline Frederick), psychopath! cally jealous of her son's affections, willfully twists Daisy's innocent relationship with the family black sheep (John Litel) into a scandal. One night Daisy, lonely and desperate, gets drunk and inadvertently runs away with Litel. Though she immediately returns, the mother triumphantly drives her from the house...
...Bermuda, but the party was not rowdy. Next morning fog again bound the vessel off Cape Cod and it became apparent that it could not land in time for the game. Philosophically the passengers turned to Hochheimer wine. An electrician repaired the radio, wrecked the night before by a jealous accordion-player. Doubly disappointed was Walter J. Salmon who had elected to go to the game rather than watch his horse, Dr. Freeland, run in the $25,000 Maryland handicap at Bowie; and Nicholas ("Nick") Roberts, ardent Yaleman of Montclair, N. J. who had not missed a Yale-Harvard game...
...appears essential. If the Harvard and Yale houses are to be merely administrative units, not completely autonomous units, the results, though they may be important, will certainly not be Oxonian, since the very essence of Oxford is the autonomy of the college; and that autonomy is guarded with a jealous love which the outsider finds it hard to understand or to value at its true worth...
Deep-lined Plutarco Elias Calles, ex-President and strongest figure in Mexico, keeps a jealous eye on his country. Fortnight ago he was to all intents & purposes a private citizen. At last week's close he and President Pascual Ortiz Rubio were the entire Cabinet...
...Memphis, he thought up his first invention?a telegraphic repeater. Jealous, the manager of the Memphis office discharged Inventor Edison. Edison, because he had no money, walked back to Louisville...