Word: jealous
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...young wife. Every time an officer enjoyed her favors a dish of fresh cucumbers would appear at table. The Colonel innocently complained about so many cucumbers, but one day an enormous dish was served up with his compliments. The officers choked with laughter. After the Russian Revolution, when the jealous greenhouse-keeper became executioner of the Tribunal of that town, whenever prisoners, especially officers, were condemned, he would read the sentence, load his gun, fire it straight between their eyes. But the cartridge was always a blank. After he had "laughed heartily over his joke, the prisoners would be disposed...
...Dublin newspapers to feature the murder-story as a testimony of Divine Wrath against evildoers. They think he is mad; by this time he obviously is. The man who murdered Teresa for divine reasons, and the man who now realizes that he murdered her only because of jealous love, make up a split personality that splits wider every minute...
Meanwhile Detective Lavan has discovered incriminating evidence against Ferriter, gives him a grilling. Ferriter promises to produce the real murderer before midnight. He tries to confess to a priest; to his horror finds that he, the jealous lover-murderer, no longer believes in God. He rushes to the slums to drink, confess to harlots. In a scene reminiscent of Dante's Inferno, Joyce's Ulysses, he confesses himself to one of three diseased harpies who play with his disintegrating personality the way vultures play with bones...
...theme of the scion of two ancient, rich and grotesquely conservative lines (Richard Arlen) who weds a chorine, Daisy (Nancy Carroll), and takes her back to the ancestral mansion. Smooth sequence, good photography, competent acting, have not resuscitated this frail, old plot. The dowager mother (Pauline Frederick), psychopath! cally jealous of her son's affections, willfully twists Daisy's innocent relationship with the family black sheep (John Litel) into a scandal. One night Daisy, lonely and desperate, gets drunk and inadvertently runs away with Litel. Though she immediately returns, the mother triumphantly drives her from the house...
...Bermuda, but the party was not rowdy. Next morning fog again bound the vessel off Cape Cod and it became apparent that it could not land in time for the game. Philosophically the passengers turned to Hochheimer wine. An electrician repaired the radio, wrecked the night before by a jealous accordion-player. Doubly disappointed was Walter J. Salmon who had elected to go to the game rather than watch his horse, Dr. Freeland, run in the $25,000 Maryland handicap at Bowie; and Nicholas ("Nick") Roberts, ardent Yaleman of Montclair, N. J. who had not missed a Yale-Harvard game...