Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bloc system are again fully illustrated in the fragmentary condition of German parties. Since the last election, five months ago, there has been no effective government in Germany. The acceptance of the Dawes plan, upon which internal stability and international standing depend, has been prevented by the jealous quarrels of widely severed blocs...
Wahabis. With an increasingly jealous eye, the Emir of Nejd and Hasa viewed the opportunist power of his enemy, Husein, grow like an orchid upon the air. The brow of the beturbaned giant with the coal-black beard became furrowed with anger at the irreligion of the Shia and Sunni Moslems. He would crush them, and off to Mecca he went with 72,000 fanatics before him. He would depose their upstart Husein, he would purge Islam of Moslem impurities. He, Faisal Ibn Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, Calif of the Saud Sect, would rule all Islam with the sword...
...Story. A wicked priest is infatuated with the virtuous heroine, a reputable and happily married woman. He contrives to make his unholy advances through a pandar, but is on every occasion sternly repulsed. The lady's husband is jealous. One night he finds a masculine slipper, not his own, in her room. Othello-like, he rashly accuses her of infidelity. To give adequate evidence of her honor, she throws herself into the river, but is fished out and hauled aboard a passing barge. It belongs to none other than the Emperor himself, on a joy ride with the Empress...
...with the latter lady, hoping, with the unpleasant intolerance of Babbitt opinion about chorus girls, that they can ward her off with wealth. By a curious coincidence common to the stage, Sister is in the same cafe with the family chauffeur, and Brother is somewhere downstairs, very drunk, and jealous because his fragile flower is getting her evening's fodder at the expense of two elderly unknowns. By the end of the scene everybody has strayed into everybody's else private dining room and there is a great deal of talk about going to Turkish baths to sober...
This was too much for fiery John Spargo. He arose again, poured scorn upon Mr. Ruhl for having "moods" about the Russians, upon Colonel Haskell for having implied that Labor in the U. S., jealous of its prestige and power, was illiberal toward the Soviets. Wilbur Thomas, head of the Relief Commission of the Society of Friends, and Sir Bernard Pares, one of the editors of the Slavonic Review, joined the anti-Spargo forces. Boris Bakhmeteff kept his peace, raising his voice only to beg the learned disputants to take their debating with somewhat more repose...