Word: jealous
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Whenever the question of parentage of that good Democratic institution the Federal Reserve Act is raised within hearing of Carter Glass, fireworks are sure to sputter. The choleric Senator from Virginia is the Federal Reserve's traditionally jealous father. But Oklahoma's aging Robert Latham Owen never lets him forget that he sat in the U. S. Senate in the days of the New Freedom* and owns one of the four gold pens with which President Wilson made the Act the law of the land. To that, the Senator snorts that every fundamental Owen contribution to the plan...
...world had been pretty well partitioned by 1850; it mattered little that Belgium, a buffer state, was in no position to carve out a dominion in Africa. Leopold worked well in twilight zones; he knew how to make weakness into strength when he had strong neighbors who were jealous of each other. In the end he possessed himself of the Congo because Bismarck did not want France to get it and because Britain thought Belgium would be a lesser evil in the middle of Africa. The people of Belgium, a thrifty, home-loving lot, did not want the Congo...
...Dansmik (Eskimo feast) in her legation at Copenhagen. Eighty guests, chosen for their interest in Greenland, dined on Eskimo food to the music of Eskimo accordions, reclined on Eskimo brixes, called each other by Eskimo names. Chief guest, addressed as Ipatuklivak (Mightily- Bearded-God), was Greenland's most jealous Danish protector, strapping, bushy Premier Thorvald Stauning. After dinner Madam Minister Owen, called Inunguak (Dear-Little-Woman), played records which she made in Greenland last summer...
Director Guthrie McClintic deserves high praise for the splendid culminating scene between the cousins. The daughter, who believes her mother is merely an old maiden cousin and whose real attachment is to Delia, is about to marry. For the first time in the long jealous warfare between them. Delia relents, makes the daughter promise to save her last farewell kiss, before she goes on her honeymoon, for Charlotte...
Determined that Neloa's education should parallel his own, Vridar took her back with him to Salt Lake City, where he was in college, put her in high school there. But to his feverishly jealous eyes she continued to show more interest in men than in books. In an effort to make himself more presentable, Vridar joined a fraternity, went out for football, but he could not make himself a conformist. In the summer he and Xeloa hired themselves out on a ranch. In a way it was a relief to Vridar when he was drafted into the Army...