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Word: jealous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courtship of Desi and Lucille was predictably stormy. Says a friend: "He's very jealous. She's very jealous-they're both very jealous." They were married in 1940, while Desi was leading his orchestra at the Roxy in New York and Lucille was between pictures in Hollywood. She flew in from the Coast; they got up at 5 a.m. and drove to Connecticut, where they were married by a justice of the peace. Since they had no apartment, Desi compromised by carrying his bride across the threshold of his dressing room at the Roxy. Hollywood offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sassafrassa, the Queen | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...Voltaire could see no reason why they should not acquire new souls. "The only thing I am really curious about," said he, "is, why does the Great Being grant the faculty of resurrection only to these little beasts? Les baleines doivent être bien jalouses [Whales must be very jealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep-Freeze | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...contacted who had no interest in the spiritual movement and had no intention of recounting any religious experiences were strongly and justifiably annoyed by this invasion of their sleep and their privacy. If there is one tradition of which Harvard, as a market-place of ideas, should be most jealous, it is the tradition that any opinion should be allowed a hearing if anyone wants to hear it. But the market-place does not extend into the bedroom, and the affair of last Saturday abridged another important Harvard tradition--the right of every student to be left alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rude Awakening | 4/26/1952 | See Source »

...chorus of commentators, eerie in green and violet light. The action took place on a center stage created between the pillars, and much of it was violent-a skirmish between Proserpina's lover and the police, an old-fashioned hair-pulling and biting scene between Proserpina and her jealous rival, and near the end, a rooftop death battle between a stranger and Proserpina's evil friends. Musically, Composer Castro offered only a dissonant mosaic. There were vigorous Latin rhythms and fresh and sometimes stringent harmonies, but no big, powerful themes, and only snatches of anything hummable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whistles at La Scala | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...marriage and two children. Among their problems: 1) Aldo was once late to pick up Judy for a party, 2) Judy lost a $2,600 radio jackpot because Aldo tipped her on the wrong tune title when she knew the right one all along, and 3) Aldo was jealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1952 | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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