Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he has the public, as well as wind and rain in his hair, Parry takes comfort from a poem pinned on the wall of the New York Weather Bureau...
...Christians would join the Wise Men we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised and aid the neighbor in his need. Do not boast that you have built churches and endowed masses. God will say: 'What to me are your churches and masses? . . . Who told you to build churches? I have set before you spiritual temples...
...show of local artists, decided to apply strict professional standards to what is largely an amateur event. They found only 18 paintings worth hanging on the wall. That left more than 1,000 entries (painters of every school, from mock-Picassos to mock-realists) out in the cold. To comfort the rejected artists, the Corcoran hung their pictures in another part of the gallery...
...mail from people who wanted to subscribe. "It is as if you light a small fire, and people come to you to get their hands warm," beamed Editor Jung. The New York Herald Tribune, scanning his first issue with friendly skepticism, gave his criticism of news more aid & comfort than perhaps it realized: "What he is saying, of course, is that news is what you make it, and that at least some American editors are feeding too much spark into the mixture . . . His point is good, even though he happens to be criticizing the current state of the world more...
...seven nights last week, in the vast, vaulted cavern of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, thousands of New Yorkers crowded in to get a feeling of the fear and hope and comfort of religion from the Rev. Bryan Green of Birmingham, England. Anglican Preacher Green was providing New York with a sight not seen there since the 1880s-a diocese-wide revival mission under the auspices of the Episcopal Church...