Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carthage will not receive the pilgrims with the splendor or the comfort which could be offered by many cities," said Mgr. Lemaitre, Archbishop of Carthage, "it will offer, on the other hand, a country which was for centuries soaked in Christian blood and an ensemble of ruins...
...part of students a delightfully informal custom of coming (either sober or intoxicated) uninvited to dances at various chapter houses. This is done so extensively as to tax the capacity of the house, and so make dancing even more like the preliminaries of wrestling than either fashion or comfort dictates. It also happens that when those who desire to enter unbidden are ardent males without escort they at times push in window sashes, glass and all, or break outer doors from their imitation handwrought hinges...
Bone drys can extract little comfort from the returns. In the aggregate they are distinctly unfavorable to an uncompromising prohibition program and they dispose effectively of the delusion that when the "dying generation of topers" disappears, dryness will become as prevalent as aridity in Gobi...
Though Author E. M. Delafield expressly states in a foreword that this book is not intended as propaganda against the Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics will find little aid and comfort in it. Most of the characters are Catholic and are shown in a kindly light, but the villain of the piece is also the most faithful churchman. The tragedy hinges on the Catholic rules for marriage, against divorce...
...discover what "comfort and prosperity" Prohibition had brought to Dearborn, the huge Ford factory-town outside Detroit, the New York World sent Newsman Kenneth Campbell. Investigator Campbell found speakeasies (known locally as "blind pigs") doing business almost at the factory gates. Fourteen were spotted in one block. Coffee houses and boarding houses sell liquor steadily to Ford workmen, despite the efforts of the Ford secret police to break up 'legger trade...