Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comfort no man speak...
...headquarters of General Matsui. They found muddy water an inch deep in the hall of the Commander-in-Chief's commandeered headquarters, paper pasted over the broken panes of his windows, water leaking through the roof and pattering loudly into tin pans. It was impossible to talk in comfort until deft Japanese orderlies had placed towels in the bottoms of the tin pans to deaden the noise. Then long-eared General Matsui fell to reminiscing about what a help he was to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and in general how Japan has helped eminent Chinese-indeed Chinese Premier...
...midst of the debate over the administration of Widener Library, it might be worth the while of undergraduates and librarians alike to pause for a moment and study an actual demonstration of how a library may be run with comfort and hospitality, a paragon which exists strangely enough, within the very walls of Widener...
...friends, openly bidding for employer support in the war with C. I.O., and getting it-to an extent that makes C. I. O. howl that A. F. of L. is chartering company unions. Last week in Manhattan he asked the American Legion (see p. 12) for aid & comfort, declaring : "It is my well-considered opinion that the call of the hour is for a closer and stronger relationship between the American Federation of Labor and the American Legion...
...great President of the Academy, Guglielmo Marconi. European females of fashion are still invited by 74-year-old d'Annunzio to visit him in his eccentric villa on Lago di Garda. According to latest reports they still spend the first four days waiting to be received in sumptuous comfort, find their closets full of the most expensive and entrancing lingerie, receive every two or three hours a present carried in by a servant, such as a ring, box of chocolates, flowers, a book. Instead of an orgy, however, the big night when it finally comes now consists in listening...