Word: happiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little English but her accent has been eliminated before the microphone because von Sternberg did not allow her to memorize her lines until she came on the set, then made her repeat them after him until she spoke them perfectly. She has no telephone in her dressing room, is happiest on grey days, has an expensive automobile, admires Joan Crawford, is married, has a baby, is going home for Christmas...
...shall learn, as all the creatures that share this earth with us have already learned, to content ourselves with life . . . and we shall find, perhaps, when we know how to live it, that life is enough. ... I believe that the ant is far less unhappy than the very happiest...
...blanch at any penal amputation. Therefore Colonel Julian was allowed to scuttle out of Abyssinia-a man without a country. Wrote one of his white admirers, Colyumist Beverly Smith of Manhattan's Herald Tribune: "Julian [on Sept. i, the day he sailed for Abyssinia] was one of the happiest men I have ever seen. His whole heart was set on the glory of the imperial Abyssinian Coronation . . . when he was to direct the aerial maneuvers from the new imperial plane. And a boundless future lay before him, as officer and statesman of the great Ethiopian Empire...
...vice president of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Charles Lanier Lawrance was always happiest when duty took him to the Wright factory where he might get his hands grimy, bury himself in blueprints, fuss with engines. Last week Mr. Lawrance provided himself with endless excuse for just such pleasure by announcing the organization of Lawrance Engineering & Research Corp. with himself as president. The company has no connection with Curtiss-Wright (in which, however, Researcher Lawrance continues an officer). It has been "undertaken in order to provide a laboratory in which scientific research may go forward in that leisurely atmosphere so necessary...
...happiest men today, says Russell, are the scientists. "Many of the most eminent of them are emotionally simple, and obtain from their work a satisfaction so profound that they can derive pleasure from eating, and even marrying." Russell thinks happiness is not a gift received but a conquest to be won. If you want to be happy you must work for it, acquire zest, congenial work, impersonal interests, freedom from worry, resignation. "The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest...