Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suiting the action to the word, Banker Harriman did all these things as Dr. Jelliffe spoke: Mrs. Harriman who, being deaf, could hear nothing of the testimony, put her arm around her husband's shoulder to comfort...
...long suffering straphanger, I constantly envy the tabloid addicts the ease and comfort in which they follow the day's events in yellow-journalese...
Author Fisher does not share the popular superstition that childhood is a happy, happy time. Certainly the childhood of Vridar Hunter was not happy. Eldest son of a poor Idaho farmer and his puritanic wife, Vridar grew up in a shack where food was scarce, comfort unheard-of, with no companions but his younger brother and sister. His parents did not think farming the noblest occupation of man; they were grimly determined that their children should get an education and escape to something better. Vridar was a sensitive, delicate child, subject to convulsions and haunting fears. The sight of blood...
Pending court decisions (which must interpret nearly every clause in the bill) Braintruster Berle, in his New York Times article, gave comfort to businessmen by announcing that the New Deal would put no honest man in jail. (Honest men need worry only about their ability to prove themselves honest.) Finally, there is behind the Securities Act a strong reminder that a corporation is not a thing which anybody has a "right" to create but that it should be created by the state "only when there is some reasonable likelihood in statecraft . . . that it will be a useful organism." Ultimately, nation...
...Herbst's story establishes its eyewitness character by almost continuous "indirect discourse," shifting its overheard speakers as the scene shifts but never losing its Nineteenth-Century tone of voice. Pity Is Not Enough is so achingly true to life that some readers may find it too drab for comfort; those who persevere to the end will admit that the title is well-chosen...