Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from a 13th-Century Chinese classic. (In 1925 it was a hit in Berlin with Actress Elisabeth Bergner, later in London with Hollywood Veteran Anna May Wong, and it appeared briefly in Manhattan.) It tells of a teahouse girl who marries a mandarin, only to fall afoul of his jealous No. 1 wife.This witch poisons the mandarin, bribes a judge to convict the girl of the murder and the theft of her own baby. At length she is rescued by a reforming young Emperor, who as a prince had met and loved...
...first question that Franklin Roosevelt is reported to have asked Harry Hopkins after his return from England was: "Who writes Churchill's speeches for him?" It is well known that Stylist Churchill writes his own speeches. But the chiefs keep a jealous literary eye on one another, and the President may have feared that Churchill had a bigger gun in his pocket than Archibald MacLeish. For Washington newshawks credit the Librarian of Congress with writing much of the Third Inaugural and more than one cozy Fire side Chat. This week they scanned the two latest MacLeish prose books...
Sirs: In a recent letter I received from my people in the Island of Cyprus, whose population is composed of Greeks and Turks, I am informed that the Turks are very jealous over the publicity that the Greeks are getting in Albania, and that they are dying to get into the war so that they can take the spotlight away from the Greeks. Like a ham actor whose greatest thrill in life is to be on the stage, even if he is there just to hold a spear, the Turkish soldier is anxiously waiting for that...
This was a victory for the Whampoa (West Point) clique of Chinese generals who hate & fear the Communists and are jealous of the publicity given to the Fourth and Eighth Route Armies. But it was no victory for China. What has kept the Communists fighting for Chiang is the fact that they fear Japan more than they fear Chiang Kaishek. If Japan (or Russia) could convince the Communists that they have less to fear from Japan (or Russia) than from Chiang Kaishek, China's jig would...
...possibility of "500 planes a day" any time soon. Many motormakers undoubtedly underestimated their own potentialities, hung back from the sacrifices that would be required. Aircraft manufacturers wanted to keep as much defense pie for themselves as possible, even if the cutting were somewhat delayed. Labor was jealous, suspicious of them all. Caught between the lot of them was Commissioner Knudsen, whose burdens include the legend that he is a superman. Hardest fact of all to see was the certainty that the automobile industry was going to make aircraft engines and parts, that Walter Reuther's plan...