Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Vasquez was elected president in 1924 to serve four years. In 1928 he had his term extended for another two years. Two months ago, on his return from medical treatment in the U. S. he announced that he would run for President again in May. Jealous politicians felt that it was time to give someone else a chance at the Presidency...
Folklore experts were quick to identify Mrs. Drew's rhymes as a variation of the old ballad "A Jealous Lover" which begins...
...down in Lone Green Valley Where roses bloom and jade There was a jealous lover In love with a beautiful maid...
...household is a queer one: marriage and children not being allowed her, she has adopted old broken-down waifs and strays, who give her nothing but jealous abuse, but on whom she can spend-her affection. She knew that "life had no wonderful surprises after all and that its most difficult burden was the incommunicability of love." Chrysis thinks she has grown beyond passion, but in spite of herself falls in love with Pamphilus, most silent of her guests, the son of the principal man on the island. But one day Pamphilus meets Chrysis' younger sister, Glycerium...
...Greatest of living Icelandic statesmen is Jonas Jonsson, "The Mussolini of the North," who is Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastics and of course a "literary man." Like Il Duce he is said to have a jealous eye upon the Crown, not with a view to seizing it for himself but with intent to make Iceland a republic. Today the King of Iceland is also King Christian X of Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine...