Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage takes Kit out of the working class, lifts her into the family of a powerful bootlegger named Tom Halsey. Despising her husband, Halsey's weak-kneed son, she breaks away from him as soon as she discovers that the comfort he provides cannot end her restlessness. She loves to drive, gets a job running liquor over the mountains. Once she drives her car into the car of Federal agents to prevent the capture of a valuable liquor stock. She becomes notorious as the girl rumrunner, dresses expensively, always carries a telegram saying her husband has been hurt...
...brings all characters to happy conclusions, White Banners also carries a plea for forgiveness and unquestioning self-sacrifice in the face of the multitudinous tribulations of modern life, and dramatizes the message that patience, courage and service to humanity is conducive not only to spiritual serenity but to material comfort as well. No mere romancer, Dr. Douglas drops Hannah's story from time to time, lectures on the fundamental beliefs that give her poise and wisdom...
...three years Mrs. Bramy was able to look after her family. Then, to relieve her hardening heart, Surgeons Brunn & Brown were obliged to remove a rigid 2-by-3 in. section from her calcifying pericardium. That type of operation was rare. Rarer was the patient's survival in comfort for another two years...
...times at each other's throats, A. M. Schlesinger Jr. begins a discussion of "Harvard Today," centering upon the Clubs and the Houses, the Faculty and Courses. Mr. Schlesinger is obviously not indifferent to Harvard indifference. He believes the Houses, "by balancing delicately between Harvard indifference and communal comfort have organized social life without cramping the individual." He likes the idea of the cross-system even if there are others who don't. His argument is direct and sustained, though sometimes with prophecy: "the House plan has made the Clubman, old-style, archaic. Diehards who will not follow their more...
...custom born of experience that wherever two or three are gathered together, it is desirable to provide antechambers devoted to retiring, resting, washing, or seeking comfort. So in the Yard the inaccessibility of the dormitory facilities has necessitated the combination of flood control and relief work in the provision of two small rooms under the speakers stand, suitable both for members of the Harvard macroscope and for the general public...