Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems strange that in spite of the recent intellectual upheaval at Yale, President Angell was not consulted. However, Yale has her loyal followers; only recently a gentleman who found time hanging heavy on his hands in a Florida penitentiary wrote to New Haven for comfort and advice, and an adequate library was subscribed, which did not, presumably, include the Harvard Classics...
...Supreme Court ruled, by vote of 7 to 2, that liquor is legal on U. S. ships outside the three-mile limit. Thus, for the first time since the prohibition amendment went into effect, the highest tribunal in the land has given comfort to the wets...
...Chicago Opera Company lost half a million. This season the deficit is less, around $300,000. Gallo's San Carlo Company, a popular-priced road troupe which is now finishing its season with a grandiose series of operas in Havana, earns a net profit, much to the comfort and happiness of its very able impresario, Fortune Gallo. The Wagnerian Festival Company, which had a rather precarious career this season, achieved a handsome deficit. The Russian Opera Company, which arrives in New York after a long road tour, has been no financial godsend to its manager, S. Hurok. Any study...
...brow-beaten President. So one is not surprised to find the Liberal Clubs of the world banded together in a Forum for self-defense and effectiveness. Furthermore, their coming "Symposium" is another of the "conferences" which grow more and more popular--where everyone brings forth his grievance and draws comfort from the troubles of the rest...
...Gems and the Desert Air Mr. Heywood Broun of Harvard and The New York World has made a discovery in the field of education. More than that, he has devoted a good half-perhaps the good half-of his sprightly Column to its exposition. But unfortunately there is little comfort for the publishers of educational news in this happy event, for Mr. Broun's discovery is the fact that there is no such news. He has read the newspapers, including the sporting pages, assiduously and he knows "not a thing about the character and personality of a single educator...