Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Week's Best Yarns" are written by Editor Guy Comfort and Associate Editor W. Gordon McGuire of the Herald, the beaver story coming from the imagination of the latter. Instituted as a weekly feature, they have boosted circulation, have the town talking. Every week after the Herald is printed skeptical subscribers want to know if the story is true, who the principal...
Germany's worst enemies could ask no more than that Captain Anthony Eden, who prefers to be called Mr. Eden, should detach Poles from their ten-year pact with Germany (TIME, Feb. 18 ), or give aid and comfort to Nazidom's avowed and bitter foe, the Soviet Union...
...button boots for this picture, she steps into a rôle cut down to her size with all the assurance of the capable actress she is. She reviews a regiment which has made her honorary colonel; tap dances with Bill Robinson; plays soldier with Lionel Barrymore; is the comfort of her mother's lonely life (Evelyn Venable) and even dresses up in Civil War hoopskirts to render "Love's Young Dream" on the harp...
...names of a score of prominent Revolutionary figures, among whom are Andrew Craigie, apothecary-general of the Revolutionary Army; Edward Livingston, the distinguished jurist; Brockholst, Livingston, a prominent figure in American legal life and later Justice of the Supreme Court; Joseph Barrell and James Watson, noted New York merchants; Comfort Sands, founder of the Atlantic Magazine and co-editor with William Cullon Bryant; and John Pintard, a book collector who founded the Massachusetts and New York Historical Societies...
...lumber king of Wisconsin, then lost his kingdom while it was still worth losing. As usual in Ferber stories, the fortunes of the dubious hero and his train are merely a framework for a lively description of logging society, from the snowy Wisconsin camps to the over-stuffed comfort of a rich small-town community. Barney's defeat by his son, who got both pretty Lotta Lindbeck and his father's business, Lotta's adventures in European "society," the 1929 crash and the return to Wisconsin, are narrative trimmings for Author Ferber's slickly factual researches...