Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, in accounting. Throughout the financial world the man who combines ability to deal with figures with the personality which wins customers is marked for success. On the other hand, here also is the place for the man who, despite his lack of other assets, wants to indulge his love of figuring, of dealing with symbols rather than with goods or services. Finance in terms of accounting, statistics, and credit work is for the man with infinite patience, who is meticulous, who likes detail, who is not upset by routine, and who does his best work by himself...
...production, with the result that Universal expended a considerable sum retaking old scenes and shooting new ones. In their revamping process the producers overlooked a strong inconsistency in the character of the father of the girls. Appearing first in the stock comedy role of the middle aged man in love with a young charmer, he was an entirely ludicrous figure of the Keystone Cop variety. Later, when the film was expanded he developed into a definite individual, warm and somehow appealing. Had his earlier portrayal been toned down, the picture would more clousaly have approached the perfection claimed...
Franz Joseph, late Emperor of Austria, lived so long that, like his opposite number, Queen Victoria of England, he became an institution. Both these high-principled embodiments of monarchy were young once; both married for love, neither of them ever got over it. But Victoria was lucky, Franz Joseph was not. Many of his misfortunes were due to foreign levies, but malice domestic caused his greatest sorrows. To those numerous U. S. readers who like to peek through the hedge at royalty, Bertita Harding's intimate narrative of Franzi and his wife Sisi will be as good a show...
...nervous pair together, this well-laid plan went sadly agley. Helen was mightily pleased with Franzi, but Franzi had no eyes for anyone but Helen's younger sister, 15-year-old Sisi. Sisi was a tomboy, but so pretty she made Helen appear a gawk. Franzi fell in love with her at sight, and for keeps. The scheming mothers put the best face on the matter they could, but Sophie could never forgive -her daughter-in-law-elect. To Son Franz Joseph she said: "Sisi is very nice, although the poor child doesn't know how to hold...
...France and Italy and with Prussia. He found out what it felt like to be a beaten general. When his only son Rudolf shot himself and his mistress rather than give her up, Franz Joseph knew what it felt like to be a failure as a father. But his love for his flighty wife never wavered. After she had left him for the last time he wrote her: "There is no end to my need of you. My thoughts are near you and with pain do I think of our everlasting separation; especially do your vacant, dismantled rooms sadden...