Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controversial Amnesty Bill. This bill goes back to early days of the World War, when many Flemist Nationalists, eager at all times to set up Flanders as an independent country apart from Belgium, were duped into thinking Imperial Germany would aid their separation. They consequently gave much aid and comfort in Flanders to the invading German Army. For such acts of "treachery" many of King Albert's Flemish subjects were condemned to varying prison terms and many, when they got out of jail, remained deprived of their civil rights, unable to vote in Belgian elections. To end this state...
...whole day Washington's Union Station was bedlam as troops of grinning boys in uniform piled off trains accompanied by young Scout Masters. Busses hustled them out to the river front parks where cooking, dining, administration tents and innumerable little wooden comfort stations had already been erected. The arrivals scattered over 350 acres, erected bright-colored tents for themselves, pounded tent pegs and fingers. At 8:45 next morning a trench mortar boomed and 25,000 Boy Scouts stood at attention. It boomed again and the flags of 52 nations rose in an avenue of flags beneath the Washington...
...Packard cabled "My greatest scare of the Spanish War" from Rightist-captured Bilbao. During the Rightist advance "I flopped down behind the first shelter I saw-a fat pig which was sleeping against a tree." cabled Mr. Packard. "I must have snuggled too closely for the pig's comfort, because suddenly it reared up, grunted and started to waddle away...
...Oakland, Calif., Miss Earhart's publicity-minded husband, George Palmer Putnam, went to comfort Mrs. Beatrice Noonan. Said he: "I have a hunch they are sitting somewhere on a coral island. . . . Fred's probably out sitting on a rock now catching their dinner with those fishing lines they had aboard. There'll be driftwood to make a fire. . . ." When this failed to cheer Mrs. Noonan, Mr. Putnam snapped: "It's this way. Bee. One of two things have happened. Either they were killed outright-and that must come to all of us sooner or later...
...published last week by the Chautemps Cabinet as one of its first acts, the 40-hour week applies to French hotels, and according to their managers this would mean hiring enough extra hotel servants to bankrupt the industry. At latest reports, tourists in France were still enjoying every hotel comfort, but the hotel operators threatened through their association to stage a nation-wide lockout of hotel workers for at least 24 hours, to emphasize their protest...