Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...negative vote means defeat of a measure, those voting for Russia's ouster were France, Great Britain, Bolivia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, the Union of South Africa and Egypt. Significantly, those abstaining were Greece and Yugoslavia, who felt they were a bit too near the Soviet Union for comfort; Finland, which decided not to be both plaintiff and judge, and China, which depends on Soviet Russian supplies for its war against Japan...
Chosen head of a U. S. committee to aid in sending comfort kits to French soldiers, Mrs. Harrison Williams, Manhattan socialite, "best-dressed woman in the world," began taking lessons in knitting from the committee's treasurer...
...morning last week, Berlin came through crisp and clear. "B-r-r," said a Nazi voice in inspired English, "it's colder than hell over here." Then his accents froze stiff. "Sorry, gentlemen," said he, "I shouldn't have said that. It might give aid and comfort to the enemy...
When the story resumes, Clisson and Eugénie have a family, are quarreling operatically because Eugénie is jealous. Climax comes when Clisson, heading a victorious army, learns he succeeded too well when he dispatched a handsome young officer to comfort Eugénie. "Adieu," he writes in a last letter. ". . . Kiss my sons -may they not have the ardent soul of their father! They would be, like him, the victims of men, glory, and love!" Then Clisson "flung himself headlong into the mèlée, and expired, pierced with a thousand blows...
...first astonished, then annoyed, then amused at her flying trips to coal mines and reclamation projects, has gradually settled back like some impressed but comfort-loving onlooker, to wonder how she found time...