Word: selfesteem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Founding a Sikorsky company in the U. S. was to him a matter of course and selfesteem. He wants no anonymity of accomplishment. But he does not like business details. He is primarily an engineer. Many a Sikorsky order, many a deal, has been delayed by Inventor Sikorsky's futile enthusiasm for improvement, remodeling. He is almost the last of the big independent designers to succumb to the industry's merger movement...
Bull-elephants show selfesteem, Demand much coaxing ere they...
Unfortunately, the comedian finds the plan disconcerting to his selfesteem. So he meets her in make-up and removes it by imperceptible touches, casting about her the while the spell of his personality, so that when he is himself again the whole process has gone unobserved and she is his for the plucking. He plucks...
...will permit himself in the presence of his associates. But under the sheltering darkness of the playhouse, he will be trapped into any extreme of emotion, and when the lights surprise him in his emotional decollette he will find fellow victims in sufficient numbers to restore his selfesteem...