Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though Vargas made them stop parading, Brazilians, traditionally jealous of European encroachments, growled for war behind closed doors. Echoes of their growls reached Vargas, who hesitated no longer. Summoning his Cabinet, he had it draw up a sober official statement...
This was a job for Paul Bunyan; to wrest an all-weather road from the jealous Northland between early spring and autumn; to span the fierce, death-cold rushing rivers, the black custard quagmires; to cut switchbacks across the Great Divide, to make the way between the Arctic and the U.S. for a highway which some day may be as common as the Boston Post Road...
...Widener's son, Joseph Early, ailing at 68, announced that it was to go intact to the National Gallery. Catch was that the art-rich National Gallery was short of cash. When the Pennsylvania Legislature last year tried to waive the gift tax, jealous Philadelphians, who wanted the Widener hoard for their own Museum of Art, slapped down that gesture in short order...
...this business, as in others, a man is jealous of his reputation. Your false report was a vicious piece of writing, based, obviously, on the unconfirmed word of somebody who did not know what he was talking about. You say in your article "there was no excuse for the manner in which the news of Leonski's arrest was broken to his aged Polish-born mother." I say there is no excuse for the manner in which you smear one in your own craft...
...excellence. The advertising company of A. M. MacGregor, Inc, is made up of Miss Russell and our own Bob Benchley, who spends his working hours playing a glorified pin-ball machine in the back office. The ruling feminine touch rakes in the profits, and is hampered only by the jealous wives of baldheaded company presidents who fear with good reason the extra-business relations of Miss Russell and their husbands. Enter Fred MacMurray, who takes the wives out to dinner and makes everybody happy...