Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Physicians are jealous for their individualistic careers. They resent the development of medical corporations. But as sure as rain they are fostering that development by such a short-sighted procedure as an agreement to exact double fees for night visits...
...Jealous Zealot...
...from his actions, makes no attempt to soften his cruelties on the excuses of religious mania. Yet human beings are more important than idols and the First Methodist is not diminished by stringent treatment. He emerges, a conceivable person, lecherous as well as righteous, prurient as well as pure, jealous of a girl as well as zealous for his God. Author Oemler treats him curtly but with even justice. The serious nature of the book may surprise that portion of the public who associates her in literature only with stories concerning one Slippy McGee...
...straps, his hands dangle idle. Later, after being provoked to a second murder, he amputates the tell-tale arms. Impetuous Youth (Elizabeth Bergner, Conrad Veidt). Ufa, German producers famed for Variety, Siegfried, The Last Laugh, Faust and other inspired ventures, have bogged this time. Their heroine is a girl jealous of her stepmother's affection for her father. She leaves home, later flees school, to wander gypsy-like in the dress of a boy. The disguise is doubly efficient, for it conceals her femininity from the other actors, yet carefully keeps the audience apprised...
...subdividing the year (calendars) have been changed repeatedly. Julius Caesar found the Egyptians using twelve 30-day months. The five extra days (six in leap years) they celebrated as holidays. Julius Caesar gave six odd months 31 days and February only 29 (30 in leap year). Emperor Augustus Caesar, jealous of his Uncle Julius' month July, gave to August 31 days also, and shifted other months to the present reckoning. In 1582 Pope Gregory corrected the calendar, which had lagged ten days behind astronomical time because the actual year contains 365.242 days, while the calendar year accounts roughly...