Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike his contemporary Shakespeare (they died in the same month of the same year: April, 1616), Cervantes lived an adventurous life, never attained comfort or respectability. Though the Spain of his day was mistress of the world, it was the most impoverished country of Europe. The stream of gold from Spain's empire poured uselessly into the desert of Philip II's fanatical schemes and such poor devils as Cervantes got never a drop. As a young man with no future, he jumped at the chance of getting out of Spain, going to Rome as Spanish teacher...
Unhackneyed, humorous and at times downright noble, Playwright Obey's Noah should tickle sophisticates with its whimsicality, should bring temporary comfort to those involved in life's complexities, should cause sheer delight to the pure in heart. First produced in French in Paris, Noah has the same sort of appeal as The Green Pastures. But it is clearly a product from the banks of the Seine, not the Mississippi, could not possibly be taken as an imitation...
When public clamor on some vital issue becomes too loud for White House comfort, a favorite Presidential trick is to appoint a batch of Big Names to a special commission to investigate the matter. By the time the commission gets around to making a report, the public has usually cooled off, forgotten what the outcry was all about. Most notorious use of this prolonged investigational device was the Wickersham Report on Law Observance and Enforcement, which President Hoover chose to ignore (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Last winter President Roosevelt found himself in his first hot water following precipitate cancellation...
...automobile styles for 1935 (TIME, Jan. 14) prompts the following letter. As interested seekers for an automobile in which the primary emphasis is placed upon sturdiness and durability we have become increasingly concerned with the general trend in automobile manufacture toward the production of cars built for speed, beauty, comfort, luxurious appointments and gadgets which fit them primarily for paved highways...
...York (TIME, Dec. 24 et ante). Aided by her husband, and by a series of bequests from rich Chicagoans, Sculptress Hoffman had spent six years on her job, circumnavigated the globe, coaxed Igorot headhunters out of trees with strings of beads, done West African types in the solid comfort of the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931. Whatever their value to science and the Field Museum, the 101 Hoffman statues are works of art that the Chicago Art Institute, one mile away, would gladly make room...