Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discerning young Harvard man discovers, soon after moving into his college dwellings, that the angular, unpadded objects grandiosely labeled "room furnishings" offer excellent facilities for clothes-hanging and third degrees, but have few other practical uses. In order to secure a modicum of comfort he must supplement the University supplied furniture by making purchases in Cambridge or Boston. Unfortunately, furniture suitable to college rooms is not easily found and even when available can be acquired only by parting with a painfully large amount of money...
...were "Lopologists," and their program to save France was "Lopeo-therapy"; it called for the elimination olf poverty after 10 p.m., the rebuilding of Paris in the country because it lacks air; the nationalization of brothels. Extremists want to extend the Boulevard St. Michel to the sea, with a comfort station every 50 yards...
...Square touches sympathetic notes among the local sidewalk gentry. Professor William Yandell Elliott's prewar guess that no battle could be quite so dangerous as crossing Harvard Square during rush hour did not consider the possibilities of the Atom Bomb, but the analogy is still too close for comfort...
Dropping "The Great Gatsby" on the rug, Vag walked over to the mantlepiece, poured out an inch of Southern Comfort, and proposed a toast. "Here's to you, F. Scott Fitzvag," he murmured, downing the 100 proof liquid. Something about bananas and refrigerators was coming out of the radio, and seated again the chair, his ears turning a dull crimson, Vag began to see the happy scenes...
...York City one day last week ten housewives, led by a public schoolteacher, made the rounds of their neighborhood meat and food dealers to ask their help in combating the black market. They got little comfort. At one store jeering employes told them: "Go home and wash your dishes...