Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven and Cambridge assuming to any very great degree the dramatic attitudes of Hollywood, even in its more turtle-necked moments. Screen commonplaces unblushingly uttered by collegians on location would evoke inextinguishable mirth at Soldiers Field or in the precincts of Connecticut Hall, and the degree to which jealous shootings, passionate romances, Minerva motor cars and the abduction of football players figure in real college life is still a little below the requirements of most film directors...
...excited to a much more rapid ripening than ordinarily. It is only elderly apples which pour out these emanations, and the effect on young unripe apples is again curious, for they are stirred to more rapid progress. They ripen more quickly. It is as though the elderly apple were "jealous of youth, and would destroy...
Britain may be a nation of shopkeepers, but her shopkeepers are exceedingly jealous of her ships & sailors-world's largest merchant marine. And Britain's shipping tycoons are jealous of their individual companies. Though big lines in Italy. Germany, Japan and the U. S. have pocketed their pride and combined for economy (TIME, Nov. 7), Liverpool's stubborn operators are still fighting it out from Land's End to Sandy Hook, from Manchester to Sunda Strait. Last week what observers thought was a step toward a truce was taken when Frederick William Lewis Lord Essendon...
Harold Leonard Stuart was proud of N. W. Halsey & Co.'s record when he went to work for the firm. When he became its president on Banker Halsey's death in 1911 he was proud and jealous of the reputation of the new firm, Halsey, Stuart & Co. Now a white-haired banker of 51, he points with pride to his firm's vast clientele and to the fact that even during the boom it distributed no common stocks. While some of its issues "turned sour" it has maintained its reputation among its peers...
...China every War Lord is jealous of every other, and the Generalissimo is no exception. His reaction was to telegraph rebukes to both Han and Liu, ordering them to stop fighting, but supporting the rights of neither. Ineffectual Chiang's telegrams were ignored. But after 72 hours of the hottest fighting into which two Chinese armies have pitched for years, they did stop. There had been the usual Chinese deal, probably put over with the usual bribes...