Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with Chicago's big Crane Co. is prosperous little Trane Co. of La Crosse, Wis. Both sell comfort to the U. S. public, but there the parallel ends. Crane last week reported 1936 profits of $5,600,000 on sales of $78,000,000. Trane was proud to show earnings of $325,000 last year because it topped its previous record (1930) by more than 50%. And that profit was made on sales of only...
...perusal of foundation ads used to affect little schoolboys, think what a reading of Esquire must do to a sensitive girl. She starts off by finding a young man on page 13, pictured in four colors and little else; the else however gives him "cool comfort and body ease" while being "so brief he doesn't know he's wearing them." A few pages further on she is thrilled by "the greatest thing they ever did to pants" (this is an old favorite), both these before she even approaches the reading matter...
...should be a comfort to common soldiers and civilians, if not to military strategists, that the most poisonous gases in the laboratory, the systemic toxic agents, are of little use in war. Hydrocyanic acid, now used to execute criminals in closed chambers, is so volatile in open air that it tends to disperse harmlessly. The French started using hydrocyanic acid in 1916 and put over 4,000 tons. Casualties were practically...
With his pension doubled and a grant of an annual ton of wine, Chaucer ended his life in comfort. Ten months before his death he leased, in a sanguine mood, for fifty-three years a house in the garden of St. Mary's Chapel at Westminster. Surrounded by those distinguished men who loved both the poet and man, Chaucer slipped peacefully into eternity at the turn of the century, a round-numbered date that no English student has difficulty in remembering...
...blundering strength, Lennie was apt to kill what he petted. George kept him in line as well as he could by bawling him out, threatening to leave him, telling him a beautiful fairy story about how they would save enough money to buy a little farm, settle down in comfort, let Lennie take care of rabbits...