Word: jealous
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Britain may be a nation of shopkeepers, but her shopkeepers are exceedingly jealous of her ships & sailors-world's largest merchant marine. And Britain's shipping tycoons are jealous of their individual companies. Though big lines in Italy. Germany, Japan and the U. S. have pocketed their pride and combined for economy (TIME, Nov. 7), Liverpool's stubborn operators are still fighting it out from Land's End to Sandy Hook, from Manchester to Sunda Strait. Last week what observers thought was a step toward a truce was taken when Frederick William Lewis Lord Essendon...
Harold Leonard Stuart was proud of N. W. Halsey & Co.'s record when he went to work for the firm. When he became its president on Banker Halsey's death in 1911 he was proud and jealous of the reputation of the new firm, Halsey, Stuart & Co. Now a white-haired banker of 51, he points with pride to his firm's vast clientele and to the fact that even during the boom it distributed no common stocks. While some of its issues "turned sour" it has maintained its reputation among its peers...
...China every War Lord is jealous of every other, and the Generalissimo is no exception. His reaction was to telegraph rebukes to both Han and Liu, ordering them to stop fighting, but supporting the rights of neither. Ineffectual Chiang's telegrams were ignored. But after 72 hours of the hottest fighting into which two Chinese armies have pitched for years, they did stop. There had been the usual Chinese deal, probably put over with the usual bribes...
...aged women. Striking is Director Stephen Roberts' opening device of summarizing his characters by showing a boy taking over a newspaper route on Laurel Avenue, being told by his predecessor the stories behind the house fronts. These include the Curry household where the wife (Adrianne Allen) is absurdly jealous of her husband (Clive Brook); the Strawn household where middleaged. Kewpie-doll Mazie (Mary Boland) badgers her husband (Charles Ruggles) and her bibulous father-in-law (Charley Grapewin ); the Morrow household where a shrew runs the Temperance Union and cows her menfolk; and the Blake girls Ginger (Frances...
...film begins with a hunting party at the castle of the Duke, includes a 100% bourgeois ghost and ends when the Duke in a proper passion vents his jealous rage upon the naughty Duchess?there being no Red moral. A few years ago Mme Lunacharsky played the role of prostitute-heroine in a film