Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient, simple-minded Wife Willie was always kind to Clorinda, but aging, jealous Wife Bathsheba was never. Abijah himself was a good man, but excessively sober. Because he bitterly resented Clorin-da's power to excite him, he was determined to discipline her. His son Freeborn was about Glory's age. They fell in love, but nothing happened except that they suffered. The birth of her first child eased Clory, but not Freeborn. When he was brought in killed by Indians, Clorinda miscarried her second child. The two deaths subdued and matured...
...worst mistake in business was made in 1928, when he tried to buck the Berry brothers, William Ewert (now Baron Camrose) and James Gomer (now Baron Kemsley). The Berrys had a prosperous string of provincial newspapers on which Rothermere looked with a jealous eye. He set up rival papers in Newcastle and Bristol. Eventually the news war became so expensive that both sides called a truce. Rothermere retired from Newcastle, leaving most of the field to the Berrys...
...Monte Carlo, directed by swart, 44-year-old Leonide Massine, onetime maitre de ballet for Colonel de Basil, had opened in Manhattan, had now begun a 22-week tour of the U. S. The Massine ballet lacked pretty young stars and its ensemble would not make the Rockettes jealous, but it had two of the world's best ballerinas: dark, svelte British Alicia Markova, who excels in classic ballets like Giselle and Swan Lake, and dark, vivacious Alexandra Danilova, who was in the old Diaghilev company, Danilova -once married to Massine's rival choreographer Georges Balanchine-dances with...
They got their fake catch past the jealous eyes of fellow fishermen, but the weighing-in officials were harder to fool. Somebody noticed the sea lice clinging to their fish. Sea lice usually outlive salmon by six hours. The lice on the prizewinning fish were dead as doornails...
...strict classifications of his strict and jealous calling Mystifier Dante is both a prestidigitator (he does sleight of hand) and an illusionist (he does tricks which require elaborate props to help the illusion). Pacing his illusions to the brassy blare of carnival music, Mystifier Dante whirled through an inferno of prestidigitatorial feats, transformed a tailor's dummy into a lady, made stooges vanish right & left. Loudly acclaimed was his trick of covering the open ends of a small beer barrel with paper, then distributing a few noggins from the keg among the audience. With dancing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious...