Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into bed at four in the morning after having gone to a private musicale and a ball or two after dinner." Most amusing incident she can remember is the late William Jennings Bryan getting high on what he thought was nonalcoholic punch. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt's words of comfort to the late Senator Walsh's daughter made a deep impression on Mrs. Keyes. She reports them as follows: " 'Dear child,' she said vibrantly, 'life does go on. It must...
Brazil's Vargas had more to comfort him last week than the prospect of a rest. Big, swashbuckling Governor Flores da Cunha of his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, who rebelliously threw his support to Candidate Salles de Oliveira to keep his onetime friend Vargas from succeeding himself, was left stranded absurdly without an issue. Hemmed in by a solid wall of Federal troops suspiciously watching for any trouble he might start with his 30,000 militiamen, Governor Flores da Cunha received without enthusiasm the news that Candidate Salles de Oliveira was about to charter a steamship...
...astronomers of modern times. The better to see in the eclipse darkness, they said they would blindfold themselves for half an hour before totality started. For Dr. Stewart the ship's carpenter built a special chair, inclined far back so that he could look nearly vertically overhead in comfort...
...Wrigley Field, President David P. Fleming of the Los Angeles Angels last week installed an innovation to make their baseball games more attractive: a clubhouse section behind third base where, for 25'' each, customers can sit at 40 tables, eat and drink in comfort while watching games...
Down the placid waters of broad Chesapeake Bay from Washington last week churned two boatloads of aviation experts, manufacturers and operators to the brick and grass coziness of Old Point Comfort, Va. to attend the twelfth annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Carefully watched by soldiers and with cameras forbidden, they were driven to Langley Field to be chaperoned physically by NACA's Secretary John Victory and mentally by NACA's Research Director Dr. George William Lewis through the world's greatest collection of wind tunnels, to see what the finest...