Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City such a battle usually favors the machine. In last week's primaries approximately five Democratic votes were cast for every Republican vote. Worse still for Mayor LaGuardia's comfort, although Jerry Mahoney polled nearly three votes to two for Copeland in the Democratic primary, LaGuardia himself polled two votes to Copeland's one in the Republican race...
Taking up the fortunes of Julian Bern, cosmopolitan young English intellectual, where Europa dropped them. Author Briffault discovers his hero holidaying in Belgium with Zena, his current mistress. War has been declared, and the German invasion quickly comes too close for comfort. Julian and Zena escape to England, hoping to live there quietly as spectators of a world gone mad. They soon find both England and their chosen role impossible. Zena goes back to her native Russia; Julian despairingly enlists. Thereafter the narrative is governed less by probability than by convenience: coincidences pop up as required, scenes shift and actors...
...Much as he has found personal comfort and inspiration in parting with liquor, the publisher of The Globe and Mail is not attempting to make himself a judge of other men. He has no desire to legislate for mature manhood under the prohibition rule. He is tolerant of every man's personal rights. He will serve a drink at his home to a guest of the age of discretion, if it is desired. By the same token he will use his utmost resources to spare the growing youth of this country from the pitfalls of alcohol. This, he believes...
...Governor Hurley had spent most of the week at the bedside of his 8-year-old daughter, ill at the Hurley summer home in Hull, Mass. He wired: "Having a daughter and granddaughter of my own . . . I can sympathize with you. May the spirit of the all-wise Creator comfort you in your trouble...
...while "Cairo sizzled at a temperature of 104°," the new King, with his family and retinue, enjoyed the stately ceremonies in cool comfort...