Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...primitives. But that day is past, largely because this age of machinery is forcing all of us in self defense to be musicians or poets. And the fine arts are no longer limited to temperamental immortals. Some of our magazine poetry furnishes sufficient cause for the comment of that jealous critic who said that free verse was the very poor art of saying nothing poorly...
...twit Steve Benet's "Wisdom". Nevertheless there is real intellectual awareness at Yale, as noted above; although we question whether the fact that the "News" conducts a colyum is any particular sign of such interest. That is, we would question if it would not be thought that we are jealous...
...hard to compete with "You tell 'em, kid". Washington crossing the Delaware huddled in the stern-sheets of a Chesapeake sharpy, hardly cuts as magnificent a figure as he does in the famous painting of that name, nor can we help suspecting that John Smith discovered by a jealous red skin in the wigwam (if it was a wigwam) of Pocahontias will produce far more excitement than the surrender at Appamaiox...
...know whether or not to doubt it. Mr. Minnegerods writes with such glob familiarity and convincing detail of "Tap-days" and "sitting on the old fence" and all those occupations that we always understood were merely manufactured by jealous Harvard men, that we feel he has been more veracious than tactful...
...whims and his scorn for worldly comforts. So she turns to Meyers Sophus, a prosperous, concerted; furniture dealer, and in him finds a welcome contrast to the vagaries of her talented husband. Peter, suspecting the worst but not daring to learn it, suffers all the tortures of the jealous husband, until, in a dramatic scene at a rehearsal of his play his uncertainty abruptly comes to an end. In the third act, he returns half-crazed after a sojourn of several days, to kill his wife and her fat lover. But he lacks-the courage or strength to shoot them...