Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poppy was about a little cabaret dancer named Tai Hoa (symbolizing China) whose love for a Russian sea captain was frustrated by the machinations of an imperialistic British treaty-port commander named Sir Hips. The ballet ended with the murder of Tai Hoa by a jealous Chinese who is a tool of Sir Hips, and the rise of the Chinese proletariat to the strains of the Internationale...
...colonel's pretty mistress (Annabella-see p. 62). From then on, while the colonel remains majestically helpless, Jacobowsky gets the party out of tight squeezes, ferrets out food, locates gasoline. As the colonel's lady becomes more & more admiring of Jacobowsky, the colonel becomes more & more jealous, issues a challenge, creates an opéra-bouffe atmosphere that makes the trip as much a flight from reality as from the Nazis...
...Panama last week, Yanqui prestige fell steadily. In spite of chill disapproval from the U.S., General Farrell's militarist, Argentina-first government basked and blustered in official recognition from Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay. The U.S. Good Neighbor policy was not yet in acute danger. But proud Argentina, traditionally jealous of the U.S., had made a beginning on a small Good Neighbor policy...
Washington police were not impressed by seasoned Defense Attorney Miller's story of self defense, nor by the mysterious envelope-wrapped pistol found in Dr. Lind's sedan. Witnesses said they had seen the jealous husband take a "white object" from his pocket, drop it in the car. But Husband Miller, held "responsible" for Dr. Lind's death, was released on $15,000 bail. After all, he was respected, old, ill, wronged...
...Gandhi's child-bride of three-score years ago, when he was a boy to whom marriage meant "good clothes to wear, drum beating . . .processions, rich dinners, and a strange girl to play with." She had been the child-mother who bore him four sons, suffered his youthful, jealous rages, stayed behind when he journeyed to London schooling. She had been the gentle, illiterate, aging woman who became his "sister" and lesser disciple, shed her high caste, mingled with untouchables, picketed toddy (palm wine) shops, urged India's fettered women to join "the struggle" for India...