Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eagerness is not the only quality expected from CRIMSON candidates. Writing ability prospers under a system by which every line that appears in print is ruthlessly scrutinized by jealous critics. It is not by chance that for the past three years in a row the Crime has won the Dana Reed award for the best writing to appear in a Harvard undergraduate publication...
After six years as President of Mexico, Miguel Alemán was still much too active at 50 to retire to the somnolent dignity of elder-statesmanship. As a private citizen jealous of his privacy, Alemán left the capital to live on his ranches in northern Mexico. An office was set up in his name in Mexico City, but it had the hushed calm of a mortuary. His real business affairs were apparently being conducted in seemly privacy by close associates whom he had raised to wealth and power. Except for an occasional speech, the ex-President dropped...
...time of the coronation draws nearer & nearer, that bright, brittle corner of London known as Mayfair becomes more conscious of its intimacy with royalty, more jealous of its standing. Last week Mayfair's tongues were wagging, and they all seemed to be saying that no one in all of Mayfair is striving more mightily to shine in the reflected dazzle of the crown jewels than that personable American named Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "He simply becomes electric when there is any royalty around," said one of the actor's friends. "Entree into the Fairbankses' home," wrote a catty...
...stage a lot: she is Sadie Thompson, she is Tallulah cavorting at Bette Davis show, she is a hillbilly singer on TV, a straight singer of musicomedy songs, the slavey wife of a jealous, roughneck husband. She is not at all a dead weight: she knows how to command attention. But it's all a little like watching someone stay on a horse rather than perform as a rider; also a little as if two famous actresses were exchanging roles, and that, to complete the joke, Ethel Merman should turn up as Hedda Gabler. With Bette Davis not pacing...
...more so because he would not pay attention in school but was always doodling. It was such gifted doodling, however, that at 13 the scrawny Michelangelo was put to learn the painter's trade in the workshop of Ghirlandaio. Within a year the master himself was making jealous noises at his prodigious protégé. Lorenzo de Medici, the Florentine dictator, was so impressed with the boy's genius that he adopted him and educated him as one of his own sons...