Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call to mind the fact that Whistler was American by birth, but British by education and sympathies. It will make him painfully conscious of the faddism which "American artists", as such, have indulged in. And the recent exhibit of the "Society of American Artists" in New York will not comfort him. Its two stellar attractions would hold, in foreign eyes, the place of scorn that Mr. Studge, the Medium, held in Browning's. In one of these "masterpieces", Bryan, Anderson, and Volstead are seen protesting against the miracle of turning water into wine, with the illuminating title underneath: "Father, forgive...
Only an ironist could describe football under the Haughton system as a sport. It is a learned profession, a vocation in the religious sense, a life work compressed into the space of three years. Its practitioners are vowed to poverty, celibacy, obedience and hard work. They sacrifice their personal comfort for a remote and dubious objective, hard to attain, dimly understood, and of more or less speculative value. It is a form of monasticism, a rejection of the world for the edification of the spirt. From this standpoint, the employment of Mr. Haughton at Columbia ought to be regarded...
...above titles are representative of the many volumes of travel and adventure to be found at reduced prices in "The Friendly Shop". It will prove worth while to visit this unique, store and inspect these offerings. Your comfort has been provided for and you will not be annoyed by importunities...
...Bartolomeo Vanzetti of the murder of a paymaster and his guard in Boston, has been on hunger strike for sixteen days and is said to be showing signs of weakness. The Sacco-Vanzetti case attracted international attention because the two Italian defendants are well-known radicals and received aid, comfort, and propaganda support from all over the world. The Labor Defense Committee, which is the chief agency fighting for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti, charges that they were " framed " by the police because they were radicals and that they were convicted on perjured testimony. Not since the Mooney case...
This is a fable of the Bird and the Ink-Pot. The Bird inhabits a curious building on Bow Street, and during, the winter months refuses to be tempted from the comfort of his tiled nest, even when summoned by Telegram. The Ink-Pot's den is a short distance from the Bird's cage but what a gap it is in fact. Strangely enough, the Bird was originally drawn by Ink from its neighbor, but that is never admitted--not even by the Ink-Pot, whereupon the cover was clapped on; after a small tempest and flapping of wings...