Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drama within quiet cities. In Albany Angenietje defies the customs of a stodgy Dutch community by marrying a British ensign who had survived Ticonderoga. At Natchez a steamboat card sharp turned respectable, acquired a Southern gentleman's plantation, only to lose it through the backbiting of a jealous mulatto woman...
...perhaps the most celebrated in Manhattan. The pre-eminent success of this particular Farley Fête, which produced more congratulatory editorials than Mr. Farley's fierce but successful fight to attain the leadership of his district, could be attributed largely to the admirable Linder. Jealous Republicans, who can give no such parties in Manhattan, scoffingly suggested that the fat boy would have been kept away from the party for fear of frightening the other guests, had it not been for the fact that Mr. Farley, himself a 6-ft. package weighing 190 pounds, likes to see much made...
...foundling's home (TIME, March 12). VOLPONE-Ben Jonson's farce about a miser who missed fire, modernized and improved (TIME, April 23). THE HAPPY HUSBAND-Miss Billie Burke proving that, on rare occasions, a woman can forgive her husband for forgetting to be jealous (TIME, May 14). Also: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE ROYAL FAMILY, OUR BETTERS. MUSICAL Look, Listen, Laugh: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Funny Face, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, The Three Musketeers, Present Arms...
...little jealous," the Prince was saying, "but we always want to see the best...
...half-gods-little would she have cared, had she known it." For, blissfully mated, they lived as king and queen, inventing all manner of pleasantries, such as the "House of the Doves," named after the creature whose love-antics are the most varied and delectable. But the gods, jealous of mortal contentment, sent a pestilence-the evil of goodness. Infected by goodness, mortals grew dull and spiritless as they debated dismally the line between good and evil. Their old tendency toward pleasures took vent in debauch, and the gods cared no longer to consort with them...