Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: I was amazed and shocked beyond expression to find TIME this week functioning as a propaganda sheet for the Irish Republicans and giving aid and comfort to them in their nefarious work of terrorism and assassination of innocents. . . .I strongly suspect that this article on Eire was slipped over on TIME's editors by a clever Irish Republican schemer and deceiver. The Scottish-Irish of Northern Ireland. . . .are as determined today as ever that they shall remain British and Protestant; their banner is inscribed now, as in the day of William of Orange, with this proud slogan...
...March 18). He said they "strike in a destructive way at vital, fundamental principles." There was something sour about this note that made those within earshot wince sharply. For Mr. Green had inveighed against both the NLRAct and the NLRBoard for many months, and his words had given most comfort to enemies of the Act. But little attention was paid him, for a man of bigger wind and deeper tone was playing...
...structures planned by most modernists have run not to flesh but bone. Pleased, therefore, were many lay visitors to "Versus" to note that the trend is away from chromium, away from bony angles, toward solid design and comfort...
...very happy, leaning back into the cool comfort of the deep leather chair and listening to the four musicians, seated at one end of the intimate little room, playing the music he loved. He felt clean and invigorated when he heard the Bach which seemed like precise and classically perfect exercises in counterpoint. He smiled an inane smile of satisfaction and pleasure as the rich beauty of Beethoven filled his entire body with a feeling of quietly sensual pleasure. And being so extremely comfortable, he mused in a slow and comfortable manner...
...eyed Bolshevik girl back in Moscow burying her face in a satin slip, and begging it for her honeymoon. Again, clever direction has saved the three Russian wheelhorses, Buljanoff, Iranoff, and Kopalski, from becoming a cheap imitation of the Three Stooges, and has made them uproarious symbols of a comfort-loving Russian bourgeoisie squirming under cold Soviet efficiency, throwing their hotel room carpet out of the window and complaining to the management because it doesn't fly. But it's Greta Garbo's show all the way through, and she deserves it. Her lightning change from a surly Marxist...