Word: envious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what a rent the envious Borah made...
Second in importance to Philatelist Hind's $82,500 scraps were three more Mauritius stamps?one tuppenny, two one-pennies? owned by Alfred F. Lichtenstein of Manhattan. He also showed to envious fellow collectors the "most beautiful philatelic piece," and original cover bearing four neatly pasted Cape of Good Hope triangular "wood blocks," addressed in a fine, spidery hand...
Between the clouds there peeped no envious...
...while the adventure into chivalry of this sort appeals to the envious imagination of the home front, it is probably with a sigh of relief that the returning veterans contemplate the friendly opportunity of shaking the warm, limp hand of a president...
...himself, ruminates many a U. S. man-in-the-street, dazzled by world-wide Fords, by General Motors balance sheets, by Chrysler skyscrapers. But such envious persons might well harken to the story of David D. Buick. Mr. Buick was in on the automobile ground floor. He was working on his Buick before the old Ford Motor Co. was incorporated. But no millionaire became Mr. Buick. No break got he. He died in Detroit last week, obscure, impoverished. And when he went to his work, he walked...