Word: comfortably
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...oldest peer and the "Father of the House" were consulted. Oldest is William Henry John North, 93, 11th Baron North, High Steward of Banbury, an asthmatic but indomitable old soldier, who still follows his pack of basset-hounds as best he can in his limousine, and must take little comfort that he is a great-grandson of the historic Lord North (Prime Minister 1770-82) whose imperious attitude toward the American Colonies was a major cause of their revolt. The Baronage of North was in abeyance from 1802 to 1841, and the present nth Baron North...
...where are held world-famed festivals) begin at 4 o'clock,† last long into the evening. Intermissions are of an hour's duration wherein listeners may refresh themselves with a schnitzel and a grosses dunkeles. But the music is given complete. There is no slicing for comfort or convenience...
...Well, gentlemen, perhaps a little," said Mynheer Adrian Gips, a director of the Holland America Line. Stoutly he added that nearly all the $1,000,000 had been spent on solid Dutch comfort-more bathrooms, broader cabins, a new swimming pool in what was once cavernous cargo space. There are no boats on any ocean so frequently painted, furiously scrubbed, resolutely polished as the Dutch. On the Rotterdam a relay of tiny Dutch pages, with faces as round and red as Edam cheeses, stand all day and half the night beside the First Class main stairway, to dash forward...
...contrast to the brilliant life of the planter was the existence of the Negro slaves. Poverty and filth were their constant lot, ignorance, their heritage. Nothing was done for their comfort. Fear that family ties might develop too strongly caused the planters to separate fathers and sons, husbands and wives...
...merely comfort that suffers from these conditions: any doctor could explain the unhealthy effects of breathing super-heated dry air in increasing susceptibility to colds. Furthermore, with decreased efficiency of work the turnover of books is materially slowed down and the congestion at cracial review periods intensified...