Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small & worldly woman, "tine petite fille," he sees great merit. Fortnight ago French Justice was generous to small Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger ("Miss St. Louis 1923"). She was acquitted at Nice of murdering her U. S. husband, after confessing that she shot him at the black end of a jealous quarrel (TIME, June 1, et ante). Last week large Texas Guinan got no French generosity whatever, was held at Havre in a room with barred windows, having as furniture three iron beds and one spittoon...
...Nice, as everyone had expected, a jury of seven bachelors and five husbands last week acquitted deep-dimpled, winsome Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger, 26, self-confessed killer of her rich, jealous, 54-year-old U. S. husband (TIME, March 23). In a skin-tight black dress, she sobbed into a pitifully small white handkerchief edged with black, told the jurymen she shot in self defense, told them she shot in total darkness after he, with jealous, groping hands had reached to wring her neck...
...some passable acting, and one splendid sequence in an operating theatre. There is in it also a good solid dose of dramatic hokum and Warner Baxter's eyebrow mustache, an adornment which does not seem to become an eminent surgeon. The idea is that doctors' wives are jealous of their husbands' time and suspicious of their chances for intimate propinquity to attractive women. For Joan Bennett, daughter of a doctor, and married to the doctor (Baxter) who was called to her father's deathbed, trouble begins on her wedding night when her bridegroom has to hurry...
...curmudgeon but by a Polish girl, pretty and strong-willed Marusia. The prisoners spend pleasant months there, become members of a congenial family. Marusia falls in love with Stanislaw: it works both ways; before he can say knife he is back in the prison camp again, for Marusia has jealous and watchful friends. Then comes the Russian Revolution, Stanislaw escapes, trudges back to the farm, has one white night with Marusia before he tries to get home over the border. He will divorce his wife, arrange for Marusia to come to him, everything will be happy...
Lately Revivalist Rider heard that Pastor Brown had shut himself in his house, jealous and impoverished. Sorry, Revivalist Rider made friendly overtures, but was rebuffed...