Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There is no isolation so poignant as that which worry brings. At such a time life slips from our grasp, average contacts no longer assure us, people become strangers, to whom we talk across an unseen gulf. Smiles that .'Drought comfort somehow mock us, as if the world had become a pantomime and our intimates the weriest shadows. The day's routine stretches like a solitary waste; there is fatigue in our souls." There are three stages: the first, or stimulating phase, when there is a fair chance of facing...
...stock anti-New Deal argument is that citizens on relief are supported in such comfort that they lose all desire to find jobs, improve their circumstances. Last week in Seattle, scrawny Ester Hilda Olson, 33, confessed that she had bashed in the head of her pretty, 16-year-old daughter Rose with an axe, cut her throat with a bread knife, buried her in a thicket near their shack. Explained Mother Olson: "I thought I was doing Rose a kindness by killing her. I was tired of living like an animal and raising her that way. I've been...
...though I walk through the valley of depression, I will fear no evil: for F. D. R. art with me; thy PWA and thy WPA they comfort...
Michigan's James Couzens is the richest member of the U. S. Senate. He is also about its most independent. Nominally a Republican, he has given vast aid and comfort to the New Deal in the last three years. Up for renomination in the September primary, Senator Couzens is opposed by Michigan's onetime Governor Wilbur M. Brucker. Refusing to campaign for his seat, the onetime partner of Henry Ford went off for a yacht cruise, remarking: "I don't intend to compete with Brucker. If the people are dissatisfied with my work, I shall be content...
...seeking to serve that I owe to the people of Idaho. After 30 years of service and under rather involved circumstances, they have given anew their assurance of confidence. I prize this above all things that could come to me in the way of compensation. It is a great comfort, which nothing can take away...