Word: comfortables
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bearded Patriarch stood robed in Biblical and almost regal splendor. Cried the Dowager Queen Marie, kneeling beside her husband's bier: "He was a saint! Oh, a saint on earth. ... I would gladly have given my own life could he have been spared!" Said King Michael, seeking to comfort her: "Don't cry, grandmama...
...greatest poets of all generations. Homer and Sophocles have not been held too lofty comparisons for him?yet he remains distinctly a product of this continent. Inhuman in his intensity?he says "Humanity is needless"; calls men "the apes that walk like herons"?he repels people who seek comfort in poetry. He takes the race as a starting
...Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, joint backer with the U. S. Department of Commerce of Colonel Lindbergh's tour, announced a new policy: to lend money to U. S. passenger air lines to help them buy "the most modern, multi-engined airplanes of maximum safety and comfort" and thus speed the arrival of the day when engaging a sky-parlor car seat from Chicago to Denver, New Orleans or New York, and back, will be as little a novelty as it already is for a Parisian to slip over to London or Berlin for dinner...
...this: I would like to go to some small village with my good family and a dog, where I could have my friends about me, and have a chance for godly living, to preach to them on God's day, bury their dead, baptize their children and comfort their sorrows. But that may not be. I must forego my plans for a rest and enter God's battle immediately...
Said Mr. Martine: "The pilots will do simple straight flying [averaging 100 miles per hour] with no stunts and no races against time. . . . There is no comparison between the comfort of traveling by airplane and traveling by railroad. Our passengers will sit in comfortable chairs. They can get up and walk around. From their seats they can survey the country rolling past beneath them...