Word: comfortables
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent article Mr. Gilbert Seldes points to the mechanical aspect of life in the United States--symbolized by the little electrically-made cubes of ice--as a possibility which might develop American taste away from the baroque. The smooth simplicity of things mechanical, embodying at the same time, comfort and even luxury, appear to him to be able to keep the American standard near a same norm...
...this solemn hour of intercollegiate "hate," the shaken soul finds comfort in that always calm old friend, the dictionary. "Lampoon" comes from "lampoons," let us drink. Liquor in Cambridge seems to have degenerated. Lampy's ancient humor has become mere billingsgate. Hollis Holworthy, that sometime mirror of correctness and savoir faire, has gone "mucker." To bedaub guests with insult was worthy of that curious taste. When one remembers such urbane Lampooners as the distinguished lawyer and sometime Ambassador who wrote "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge," one is surprised by the difference of the modern tone. Such is the improving effect...
Last week teemed with emotion, activity, for His Holiness, Pope Pius XI. First arrived at the Vatican three Mexican hierarchs. To them His Holiness spoke words, of comfort and hope, promised to give Mexico a rich ostensorium which he received at the recent beatification of the French Revolutionary martyrs (TIME, Oct. 25). Next, a magnificent procession wound its way through crowded streets-towards the Coliseum, ancient centre of Paganism. In its midst, borne aloft on the shoulders of the faithful, was a huge cross. Made of wood, it contains pieces of olive trees from Gethsemane. It had been blessed...
...widely bruited that the U. S. Treasury was, in one way and another, contributing to Her Majesty's pomp or comfort...
Sally Fairfax. "If ever a man had need of woman's kindness, Washington needed it now. He was disgusted with the world of men. He had finished with 'the Art Military.' Being only 22, it was perhaps natural that he should turn for comfort to an older woman. He had had enough of proposing to 14-year-old chits...