Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concept is cogent if not staggeringly original, and on-the-spot scenes in Berlin, Rome, and Madrid add force to the picture. Ann Richards contributes one of the most perfect speaking voices ever recorded, Sylvia Sidney an excellent performance, and Robert Young a debonair priggishness. He is the very model of a blind American ambassador...
...when you add a genius for becoming mildly mellow...
...Add Figures. Burroughs was founded by an Auburn, N. Y. bank clerk, William Seward Burroughs, who got tired of adding up long columns of figures. In 1881, he went to St. Louis, and with $700 borrowed from a dry-goods merchant he tried to invent an adding machine...
Five years lafer Burroughs thought he had perfected his "Arithometer." He built 50 machines, but couldn't sell them: nobody but Burroughs could make them work. After five more years Burroughs perfected his machine. But bankers were not interested. Bank clerks (who could do more than add) were cheap...
...add to the general bitterness, most of the delegations had also brought their own spies. Baron Hager, president of the Austrian Oberste Polizei und Censur Hofstelle, sent secret reports daily to Emperor Francis. Sample: "The Emperor of Russia went out at 7 p.m. . . . to visit the Princess Thurn and Taxis. Every morning a large block of ice is brought to the Emperor with which he washes his face. . . . The British Mission, owing to excessive caution, has engaged two housemaids on its own. Before I can get at [their] waste paper ... I must see whether I can count on these...