Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...river at Nanking, taking off U. S. Embassy secretaries, Standard Oilmen, correspondents, cameramen and other U. S. citizens who had dared to stay on until the last moment before Nanking's fall (see col. 2). Her job done and shells coming far too close for comfort, the Panay moved away, anchored beside three Standard Oil ships in a more peaceful spot, 27 miles upstream from the battle. It was not peaceful long...
...hurt in the crash, a chief petty officer (Pat O'Brien) directs the lowering of a roomy rescue bell which fastens over the hatch, permits a rescue to be conducted in comfort and style. No cineminventions, both the rescue bell and the escape lung are in service in the submarine division of the Navy, have been developed since the S-4 and S-51 disasters. For the absorbing technical accuracy of the film, credit goes to Navy-minded Director Lloyd Bacon, son of the late Actor Frank Bacon (Lightnin'). Director Bacon joined the Navy at the start...
...Club, is the film's most authentic touch, although it makes meagre use of his extraordinary repertory. At home in his hurly-burly 18 Club, Comic White welcomes visiting Babbitts with orchestral fanfares and vanishing birthday cakes, dons cop's garb to unsnarl traffic jams around the comfort stations, fishes for hecklers, whom he invariably outwits. His patter songs are masterpieces of non sequitur, leaping with dizzy unpredictability from Dixie dithyrambs to stirring on-to-war blather, with interpolations on foreign and domestic affairs. Louder than, and about as funny as Jimmy Durante, Jack White...
...these church members, 97% belonged to the 24 principal denominations. There are, however, more than 200 U. S. religious groups, half of them with less than 7,000 members. Some of them date from the theological squabbles which attended the religious revivals of the early 19th Century. Some comfort their members with assurances that all the rest of the world is wrong, and will be painfully proved so by some spectacular, millennary cataclysm. Some cater to adepts of what Dr. David Starr Jordan called "sciosophy" ("systematized ignorance"). Out last week was a book about these teeming little sects, result...
...last year's Princeton game when a bulldog that looked remarkably like his own was aired in the Palmer Stadium before the Princeton ganie. It was learned that it belonged to Ed Leader, Yale's crew mentor, and, at that, the score was too close for any degree of comfort...