Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bullet-shaped touring car nosed out of the Derham Custom Body Co.'s plant at Rosemont, Pa., and headed for Manhattan and glory. Army drab -colored, dark -green -leather -upholstered, fitted with a special top that folds down flat so that guests' may sit thereon in comfort to be admired, the sleek, custom-built Chrysler Imperial was destined to be the personal car of the president of the New York World's Fair, the greatest greeter of his time, Grover Aloysius Whalen...
...Austrian pseudo nobleman. Invited for the first time to the Kekesfalvas' big country estate, naïve young Hofmiller, un aware that Edith's fur robe covers withered legs, asks her to dance. She bursts into sobs, hysterical abuse. So begin Hof miller's visits to comfort and cheer this girl, frail, intuitive, passionate, spoiled by every luxury. For Hofmiller, pity is pleasurable until it turns into a jinni which needs his commanding officer, the War and suicide to pry loose...
...propaganda, encourages malingering, actually costs more than private medical care, is "detrimental to the nation's health." Under the English health insurance system, says one booklet, "the . . . patient will not hesitate to come along into the waiting-room collarless and even coatless, nor does it add to the comfort of other patients when one is compelled to put up a large notice [asking] . . . patients . . . not to spit on the floor...
Squeezed into a small hall in the huge Park Square Building off Arlington Street, the brand new Telepix theatre presents a shower of short features to the public in ultra-modern and ultra-comfortable surroundings. Thus far, however, the "rocking chair comfort" and the sterilized air with ultra-violet ray generators are greater attractions than the uneven assortment of newsreels, travelogues and cartoons...
Part of this rosy picture has been due to a midwinter anthracite boom, and in Scranton, 19 miles away, retail trade has been a little better than in Wilkes-Barre. But this was pretty cold comfort to U. S. newspaper publishers, whose associations remained discreetly silent on the matter last week...