Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sound of the "Passing water of the cool stream, Coming from afar," and leaves a faint impression of a passion for which the real Iris would be no solace. Augustus Lord's "By Autumn Seas" is a manly utterance on the old theme of world desolation and the comfort of "Love's dauntless cheer." Conrad Aiken has solzed perforce upon the poetry of the unpoetic in his "Vaudeville." He loves the verse of contrast, the skipping danseuse edging back and forth across the stage, hopelessly beloved by the violinist; and the shadowy silent lady, in spirit skipping after him. Somehow...
...world's supply of materials essential to life and comfort become exhausted, the importance of a knowledge of their chemical properties and relations grows. Never before in history, to take a familiar example, has the loss of metals to the world been accomplished so rapidly as today in the great war. And in proportion as these substances are used up, advance must be made toward the acquisition of suitable substitutes...
...fall production of the Dramatic Club is "The Perverseness of Pamela," by Virginia Church, who took English 47 last year. It is a farce-comedy of three acts, dealing skilfully and with a light and graceful touch with the military life of the post at Old Point Comfort. The chief figure is the charming but incorrigible Pamela, whose wiles and pranks keep everyone in a continuous state of tension. The lesser figures grouped about her are the officers of the post, and their wives and sweethearts...
...ever, except in spring, summer, and very early autumn, the Seniors are forced to complain, between chattering teeth, of the frigid atmosphere in their rooms. All day long the temperature is noticeably below the comfort point. And at about 10 P. M. even this meager amount of heat disappears. "Early to bed and early to rise,"--is this the schoolboy formula under which Seniors suffer? Or are the dispensers of warmth following a policy of economy? If so it may be suggested that Seniors will pay rather than freeze. Will those in charge recognize their duty, or is this...
Progress marches slowly; and some day it may be hoped that dwellers in the Yard will not have to plead for the elementary comfort. Else, most certainly and desirably, they who refuse this demand, will one day enjoy heat in abundance...