Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heel (by Martin Flavin: Walter Hampden, producer) is a distressing piece of mumbo-jumbo showing Tragedian Hampden as a Negro elephant-keeper in a zoo. Mr. Hampden and the invisible elephant love each other for being big. strong, noble. When a high-yellow wench, urged on by a jealous monkey-keeper, saps Mr. Hampden's integrity, the elephant, outraged, knocks his friend down with a blast of dusty air. The monkey-keeper gets the elephant job. makes a mistake, is promptly killed...
...rather slight story of The Great Waltz is built around the careers of the Johann Strausses--father and son. Guy Robertson lends grace to the figure of Young Strauss as an artist in love, praying for recognition for his music, and balked by a jealous father. Marie Burke is very satisfying as the Countess who sponsors his career and finally brings him his "great chance...
...bodies cry for food, as long as lean human frames stand naked, as long as homeless wretches haunt this land of plenty." It ended: ''His unlimited talents invariably aroused the jealousies of those inferiors who posed as his equals. He was the Stradivarius, whose notes rose in competition with jealous drums, envious tomtoms. His was the unfinished symphony...
...history contains few more provoking mysteries than the personality of Ulysses S. Grant, described by Henry Adams as "shy; jealous; sometimes vindictive; more or less dull in outward appearance; always needing stimulants." Grant was an easygoing, touchy, unimpressive soldier in his early career, later a devoted family man who failed with an almost uncanny thoroughness as a farmer, rent collector, store clerk, before he blossomed as the stolid genius of the Civil War. An essentially honest man who labored in terrible agony to pay his personal debts. Grant became identified with the most scandalous corruption that ever touched a President...
...wrote Kirksville friends that he was suspicious of his wife, notified Kirksville tradesmen to cancel her charge accounts, told university friends that he was afraid he was going crazy. In turn his bride informed him that an old suitor of hers, a tall, dour carpenter named Mandeville Zenge, was jealous...