Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advice which he offers is as follows: (1) Don't allow the object of your desires to know she or he holds such a position of honor. (2) Make her or him jealous; and (3) Make yourself scarce. The advice certainly sounds good to the unexperienced ear, but it acts as the proverbial boomerang in Richard's case, which is a lucky thing for otherwise the good picture would have to have an unexpected ending and that would obviously be impossible...
...just as earlier the same experience had come to accounting, the first business profession, to engineers, lawyers, doctors and clergymen. And if knowledge is to be systematized and taught, it must be made open and accessible. This logical corollary, not at first fully perceived by business men, with their jealous traditions of secrecy, was of necessity emphasized, though with caution, by the new collegiate business schools. But business men themselves were beginning to realize that their individual interest coincided with that of larger social groups and were gradually becoming more willing to share their knowledge. Trade associations were proliferating...
Atmosphere of Love is a novel, two-fold in form. In the first part Philippe Marcenat writes to his new wife Isabelle describing his great but jealous love for his previous wife, Odile, telling how she was untrue and shot herself when abandoned. In the second part Isabelle writes how Philippe "hung on. me, as one hangs a cloak on a peg, a soul much more beautiful and worthwhile than mine really was''; also how he died of pneumonia. Throughout Philippe becomes more and more transparent, leading to the conclusion: "If one truly loves, it is not really necessary...
Their quarrel arose because Miss Hix was jealous of his wife. Snook beat her four times over the head with an automobile hammer, cut her throat with a penknife, left her dead at a suburban rifle range where they had often trysted. Arrested, put on trial, Snook, cold, unmoved, said she had threatened to kill him, his wife, his young daughter, claimed he was emotionally insane, remembered nothing of his grisly deed. So vile was the testimony that no paper would publish it verbatim. Low-minded persons scavanged the official transcript, printed pamphlets omitting no horrid word, sold them...
...apes and Indians-somewhere he could play gallant to slim, brown Suzanne. Of course he "hadn't much use for females," but here was one with whom he could laugh, play, tumble, tease, poetize, and only once was there anything between Suzanne and him like what Ewald, jealous, was bold enough to insinuate. Wolf was a fighter, too: he promptly challenged Ewald but parents suppressed their pistol-duel, whereupon Wolf burst into sobs-"like a child"-on his mother's bosom. Fights Wolf did not provoke with Dietrich who, provocative, was a little stronger, a little older...