The book, which the pseudonymous Stephen Longstreet based on his semiautobiographical 1946 novel, "The Sisters Liked Them Handsome," means to recall a bygone America just starting to flirt with modernity: one-reelers, Model T's, subdivisions.
The firm was laid low by the rapid shift to digital photography and away from film, where Kodak once earned 70% margins and enjoyed a 90% market share in America.These handsome profits meant that the firm could invest huge sums in research and development.
The specific epithet decorosa, though intended for "elegant" or "handsome", actually means "decent", "respectable", "modest", or "decorous".
It means "handsome," but in context it meant, I thought, that he was not a brute but a man of honor, not a greedy gangster but a generous, if stern, comandante.
He was not, by any means at all, a handsome man, but he had himself in order.
How's my precious Jewel Kennyny claimed that his name, in Latin, meant handsome, and that Jewel's, of course, meant jewel.
Even if students stay loyal to a studio, it doesn't necessarily mean handsome profits.
For just $290,000, you can pick up this beauty, cough cough, I mean handsome fixer upper, in Brooklyn.
It's their parents who shine, especially Rock's sassy mother, Rosie (the hilarious Eugene Domingo), and Tracy's stern father, Nick (the squarely handsome and convincingly mean Gary Valenciano).
Drummer Don Powell and guitarist Dave Hill still perform in a somewhat end-of-the-pier version of Slade, though bassist Jim Lea and singer-guitarist Noddy Holder are missing, perhaps because handsome songwriting royalties mean they can stay at home, keep warm and buy food.
