Word: jealous
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...Editor relinquished her reluctantly, glad that she was so popular, but just a bit jealous. After all, stags don't pay a full price, and why should they cut in on someone else's expenditures. He glanced back, and realized that she did dance divinely, and looked a bit more beautiful tonight . . . it couldn't be just clothes. There was Freddie. Freddie had made the punch, and had been under the necessity of tasting it. Perhaps it would be better to avoid Freddie...
...Haven and Cambridge assuming to any very great degree the dramatic attitudes of Hollywood, even in its more turtle-necked moments. Screen commonplaces unblushingly uttered by collegians on location would evoke inextinguishable mirth at Soldiers Field or in the precincts of Connecticut Hall, and the degree to which jealous shootings, passionate romances, Minerva motor cars and the abduction of football players figure in real college life is still a little below the requirements of most film directors...
...since it was first played in 1895, is obvious devotional melodrama. Nero (Charles Laughton) orders his lieutenant, Marcus Superbus (Fredric March), to clear Rome of Christians. While doing so, Marcus falls in love with a Christian girl named Mercia (Elissa Landi). This makes the vicious Empress Poppaea (Claudette Colbert) jealous. Marcus Superbus tries to persuade Mercia to become a pagan. He fails. Nero wants to forgive her for being a Christian but Poppaea, to save Marcus from what she considers a misalliance, refuses to allow it. Mercia goes to the lions first. Marcus follows her-not, as in the original...
Lupe Velez: "Ha! So you are jealous...
...excited to a much more rapid ripening than ordinarily. It is only elderly apples which pour out these emanations, and the effect on young unripe apples is again curious, for they are stirred to more rapid progress. They ripen more quickly. It is as though the elderly apple were "jealous of youth, and would destroy...