Word: jealously
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...their next job there was a fight. Wilcox (Joseph Sawyer), a lineman jealous of Red's prestige, tried to loosen the line that was dropping Red. Slim got to Wilcox in time. He and Wilcox were both hurt. When Slim wrote the news to Cally, she came out to nurse him. She fixed it for him to have a job in maintenance, where he could stay put and raise a family. Once more Slim thought he'd go with Red, so Cally called off their wedding. Climax in the contest between love for Cally...
Like many affectionate, wilful children, three-year-old Noel Galvin was jealous of the new sister his mother brought to their Brooklyn home two months ago. One evening last week Noel found himself alone with Sister Dolores. When the mother came upon them the girl was dead. Scratches and bruises on her made police jump to the conclusion that jealous Noel had beaten her to death with his toy airplane. But the medical examiner, Dr. George W. Ruger, absolved the boy, certified that the infant's death was due to sudden enlargement of her thymus...
Awarded. To Caroline Pafford Miller, 33, 1934 Pulitzer Prize novelist (Lamb in His Bosom); a final decree of divorce from William D. Miller, her high-school English teacher whom she married at 17; in Waycross, Ga. Grounds: "He became nagging, unbearable and . . . insanely jealous." Retorted Teacher Miller: "[She] got pleasure-mad after writing the book...
...complaints merely attracted more unseemly goings-on than ever. A merciless churchgoer, she embroiled the gentle parish priest in her quarrel, soon had all Clochemerle divided into Urinophobes and Urinophiles. Scandals grew and burgeoned, culminating in a near-riot in the church itself. After that, disasters followed fast. Jealous citizens from a neighboring village came by night, blew up the urinal; the Government, with mistaken zeal, quartered troops on Clochemerle and precipitated a real riot; the old maid went frankly, starkly crazy. Even then there was no telling what might have happened if a terrible thunderstorm had not descended...
...only fitting in a musical comedy, the story is built to fit the songs and dances and achieves just the proper melodramatic touch in doing so. The elder Strauss, his waltzes on the lips of all Europe, is jealous of his son who shows a talent equal to his own, even if in a style abhorrent to the father. He thwarts his son's ambitions to lead an orchestra and play the waltzes he fears may become more popular than his own. But he is in good turn himself thwarted in his machinations, by nothing less than the intrigues...