Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that has been on my mind for some time, and the reported speech of Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania recently intensified the conviction to all but the point of action, namely: To make it my life effort to assassinate you for good of the world, because of the aid and comfort you have given to the most de- structive, dastardly and wicked institution on earth...
...King and Queen visited Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, her husband, at Goldsborough Hall in Yorkshire en route for Balmoral, the King's private residence in Scotland. Before leaving the metropolis, which was several days after the shooting began, Their Majesties received a gift of several brace "to comfort them for not being among the grouse-shooting sportsmen." The Maharaja of Patiala, who is stopping in London in royal state (TIME, Aug. 10), received a present of 100 brace...
...grandfather and that it was necessary that he should maintain himself in a style befitting his coming station in life. . But she thought that, if Sir Thomas could afford to rent a house for another woman, he could certainly afford to support his wife in comfort...
...leopard dropped, was up again, darting for cover, with White after it, followed by two natives with extra quivers of arrows. One carried also a small gun, by way of "mental comfort." The hidden leopard surprised one of White's companions, fell upon him and clawed him. The gun carrier came to the rescue and fired pointblank. More infuriated, the beast turned upon the firer, bit him furiously. White seized the fallen gun and fired the second shot, only to draw the leopard's attack on himself with such force that he was knocked down, leopard...
...result was that, a few days later, the unofficial spokesman, speaking "informally but authoritatively," declared that the U. S. meant just what it said when it invited foreign powers (TIME, May 25) to arrange to pay up their debts. He went on to say-lest foreigners take too much comfort from the kindly talk of U. S. citizens abroad- that all the nations (possibly excepting Yugo-Slavia) which had borrowed money from the U. S. for relief and reconstruction after the War had broken their pledges. For they promised, when borrowing, to have no preferred creditors ahead...