Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After lunch home and stretch out on the divan but Madame slays me with her heavy weights, which she drops upon me, defenseless, as I lie. So that I find no comfort, and rising, pick up the small brown Mermaid books that stand between my dachshund bookends. The title-page bears the legend, from Beaumont, "I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine". The books are plays of Beaumont and Fletcher...
Without attempting to compete with round-trip prices offered by the railroads, because this train is on the de luxe order, offering the best in comfort for students and their guests, including ladies. Meals will receive the most expert attention, and a table will be assigned each party. Refreshments of the liquid variety will be served during the trip...
...demonstrating how effective those powers could be. Last week under the watchful eyes of British Tommies, Arab shops which had been closed for 26 weeks during the paralyzing Arab General Strike (TIME, May 4 et seq.) displayed their wares, and Arab women thankfully began to shop again in comfort. Arab-operated taxis and buses were laboriously cranked up and put back on the streets. Village peasant women, without fear of molestation, lugged baskets of fruit and vegetables to be sold in nearby towns...
...comfort the Onion Committee might well look to Zonite Products Corp., which is currently advertising that all traces of onion may be quickly eliminated by a Zonite gargle, a process characterized as possible by Dr.Howard Wilcox Haggard and Chemist Leon A. Greenberg (TIME, July 1, 1935), as impossible by Drs. Marion Arthur Blankenhorn and Calvus Elton Richards (TIME...
...knees interfering with the "handlebars" that worked the ailerons, he could understand why the War Office had almost turned him down at first glance. For the airplanes at that stage of the War -the Avros, Moranes, Bristol Bullets, DH 4's-were designed with little thought for the comfort or convenience of the men who flew them. Like the prehistoric pterodactyl, which they somewhat resembled in appearance, most of these types are extinct now, were being supplanted before the War was over. Gaunt, unstable contraptions, held together with piano wire (the pilots used to say that canaries could...