Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...darkness around him, Strindberg saw only enemies, including his own wife, whom he suspected of deceiving him and being a Lesbian. Insanely jealous, he came to believe that Siri's children were not his (a suspicion he dramatized in his play, The Father). For a while Siri and August lived in a filthy old castle near Copenhagen, together with a mad Countess who played the hurdy-gurdy, a gypsy steward who practiced hypnotism, and a pack of wild dogs...
...grew, it encountered opposition. Plump Maria Theresa of Austria, a doting and jealous wife, had her husband's Masonic lodge raided because she was sure that her philandering Francis was up to no good. More effective opposition came from the Catholic Church. Pope Clement XII, in 1738, issued a papal edict denouncing Masonry as a trespass on the church's spiritual and moral domain. Rome's opposition to Masonry has been unceasing. The church, which excommunicated all Communists last week, has been excommunicating Masons for 200 years...
Eliot's crew won the House championship race yesterday and made varsity Coach Tom Bolles even more jealous than before of its talent...
After teaching Williams the secret grip and tattooing him with the mystic symbol, the C.I.O. set out to bring Michigan's Democratic Party into the lodge, too. This involved rescuing it from the A.F.L. (who controlled the Michigan delegation to the Democratic National Convention) and from jealous old-line party members who showed an unrealistic persistence in demanding space on the political scene...
...Were You Jealous? Neither this nor the prosecution's methodical progress wilted Mildred Gillars' theatrical attitude-at first. After Inge Doman, one of three German witnesses, had told of seeing her make broadcasts in Berlin, Mildred Gillars tugged at her lawyer's sleeve. She whispered; after a moment he asked the witness if she wasn't "a little jealous of Miss Gillars...