Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage is the largest and best-equipped opera stage in the world. Complete sets can be rolled on, revolved, or lowered into a cavernous substage in a matter of minutes. Dressing rooms are wired for sound so that singers can follow the performance and await their cues in comfort...
...almost double the five-year average for the corresponding week. Since the disease year's beginning (April 1), there were 1,226 cases (113 of them after vaccination*), and the same comparisons held. It was too early for the figures to prove anything, but there was little comfort in them...
Even in the most comfortable middle-class families, housing can become a psychological problem for youth. A 25-year-old fashion designer earns $230 a month, a whopping salary for her age. But she must live with her parents. It would cost half her wage to find a furnished flat with the comfort she now has; it would take $3,000 "key money" to get an unfurnished apartment. "It could be worse," she says philosophically, "but it's bad enough. I can't give a party. I can't invite someone in for a drink...
...mechanical nightingale to the real thing. This is Rogers' fourth opera (his second was The Warrior, which was sung at the Met in 1947). At 62, he shows some pleasant signs of mellowness, but The Nightingale's chirping was too insistently Chinese and too disorganized for comfort...
...hotel clerks, ignored by public servants, cursed by motorists and contemned by streetwalkers and beggars. With cocked brow and curling lip, the casual metropolitan Frenchman seems to regard most alien bewilderment as stupidity, any request as unreasonable, and all tips too small. For the visitor, the chief comfort to be derived from this situation is that Frenchmen seem to treat one another in much the same fashion...