Word: envious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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RIVALRY - Sarah Warder MacConnell-Macaulay ($2). Two sisters, petty-vicious, put a docile plot through its paces. It must be shown that Julia is vain and envious, so she meets her fiance's mistress. Elena, the homely sister, must be thwarted, so she is crippled for life the very moment her dancing wins applause. She marries an artistic wanderer, who then dies. At home she finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader...
Many persons, of envious temper, or lacking in aesthetic sense, have sneered at the face of John D. Rockefeller Sr. The legends that Mr. Rockefeller is fond of vinegar-pickle, that he drinks hot milk, plays golf in trousers ten years old and never tips more than a dime have so prejudiced these persons that when they see the face of Mr. Rockefeller in the rotogravure section, smiling at golf balls or giving dimes to children, they perceive that the face is old, and say that it is mean. John Singer Sargent, greatest of U. S. portrait painters, had another...
They give their chambermaids severe instructions. Nevertheless, other Manhattan hotels were envious when, last week, mice were reported in the Waldorf-Astoria. For one thing, these mice were dead. For another, they were, as mice go, famed. They had arrived in the luggage of Explorer-Engineer Grant Carveth Wells of England, who was going to take them to the American Museum of Natural History, where they would be mounted against a background of bleak tundra and labeled Lemmus norvegicus, the lemming. Stubby of tail, tawny of fur, blunt of snout, five inches long, lemmings are probably the only mice that...
...race of life goes seldom to the fleet of foot. More often it is won by some innovator who procures a motorcycle and rides to victory amid envious shouts of "Unfair!" Such an innovator is tall,* big-boned Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, never a seaman but the world's greatest shipman. He towered to international fame (TIME, Dec. 6) when the Royal Mail Line of which he is Chairman bought the White Star. Last week correspondents enthroned him as a personage by cabling to the world's ends a speech which he made in London before the Institute...
Trippers just home from Europe, bubbling over with news of how fast the taxicabs go in Paris and how hard it is to buy good cigarets in England, received a sorry setback, and their envious friends a flush of joy, upon opening the September number of McCall's magazine and there reading an article by the daughter of Chief Justice Taft, Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr College. "It is estimated," estimated Mrs. Manning, "that nearly 500,000 Americans have crossed the Atlantic this summer. ... I should be the last to question the benefits or the delights...