Word: jealous
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...right one, when both letters are identical. Ford's "The clock gives me my cue" is accompanied by strokes on a cow-bell. When Falstaff is smuggled out in the laundry basket, the wives have to sidle along together to hide Falstaff's enormous hat from the jealous eyes of Ford. After Falstaff has drunk some sack, he is still conveniently soaking his legs in a tub of hot water, so that he gets an extra laugh by gesturing to the tub as he exclaims, "Take away these chalices...
Alas! who serves his country often serves A most ungrateful mistress, even thy merit Offends the Senate; with a jealous eye It views thy greatness...
...haired Pianist Van Cliburn, 24, recently given to muttering about his mysterious true love, either unveiled the damsel herself or made a third party quite jealous. Stalked by a photographer for the London Evening News, Van was spotted strolling hand in hand with pretty, young (19) Tonina Dorati, daughter of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Antal Dorati, now also on a European tour. Earlier, Cliburn characterized his nameless heartthrob as "someone who thinks she's a musician-but she's not." By coincidence, Tonina plays the piano without distinction...
...stereotypers walked out on a point that might have been easily conceded by a union less jealous of its prerogatives. Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr. had agreed to union demands for $10-a-week pay boost this year and $5 in 1960, enough to pay the stereotypers their highest scale anywhere in the U.S. (duplicated only in Detroit). In exchange, the paper asked the union to relinquish its uneconomic control over "base," the metal blocks on which engravings are laid. As it has been, a composing-room hand must take base blocks back to the stereotype department...
...Maybe He's Jealous." For a few fleeting weeks it seemed that all was serene again. But last week Wayne Morse proved that he had lost none of his awesome capriciousness. Announced he, out of a clear blue sky: "I shall take to the people of Oregon in the 1960 campaign my differences with Mr. Neuberger. I shall not support him for re-election." Wearily, Dick Neuberger searched his mind for possible reasons for the new split. "Maybe he's jealous," he speculated, "of an article I had published in the Reader's Digest...