Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forecast is injured! Word arrived to this effect late yesterday evening from coastguards near Old Point Comfort. The telegram reads: "Harvard Crimson stop have in custody two men stop have given name of Forecast stop found floating in bay on empty cases stop elder in serious condition claims foul play by betting ring stop have asked us to communicate with you stop please advise. Sergeant Curdle, Coast Guard...
...annually at present. . . . This is a chemical age, and we live, move and have our physical being as a result of chemical processes. Whether we travel on foot in chrome-tanned shoes and rayon stockings or roll to work on rubber wheels and concrete roads, we travel in comfort by chemical grace and goodwill. If we land in the hospital, the chemist has anticipated our coming. He is there before us with antiseptics, anesthetics and remedial agents for the relief of suffering and the restoration of health...
...comfort of knowing that it would soon be over now. Even if Mr. Hoover should be elected and appoint Calvin Coolidge to the Supreme Court or something, or if it were decided to continue living in Washington anyway, the strain of being First Lady would definitely cease before next spring...
Loomed, after the brief Egyptian visit, a 17-day sail from Alexandria through the Suez Canal and down the coast of Africa to Mombasa. For the sake of comfort on this sweltering voyage the British India Steam Navigation Co.'s S. S. Mali has been improved by ripping out the partitions dividing her six largest cabins and constructing instead two spacious, airy bedrooms and a sumptuous sitting room for Their Royal Highnesses...
...planes are Ford all-metal monoplanes, with enclosed cabins seating 12 passengers, plus hand baggage; equipped with three Pratt-Whitney Wasp motors, top speed of 140 m.p.h., cruising speed of 115 m.p.h. The pilots are veterans of the airmail. Safety, comfort, speed are the T. A. T. keynotes...