Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empty space behind the Business School rather forlornly awaiting another period of prosperity, some already employed as a parking space, and the rest just begging for the expenditure of a few dollars to give it a purpose in life. Such a solution of the problem is necessary for the comfort and peace of mind of the Harvard student who now finds himself forced to economize even in his accustomed luxuries...
There are times for the Vagabond, as for every man, when the apple turns to ashes on his palate, when the burden and the mystery prey on his spirit. He turns from the shallow comfort of the penny-a-liners to the mordant voice of Housman. Like Archduke's cousin, he sees the symbol of it all in a handfull of dust. Like Swift, he celebrates his birthday as a time of mourning, and all neighbors join in. Life is a poor thing, bitter and mocking and the phrase of Solon runs in his mind...
...comfort comes at last not in the dusty books of cynics, but in things of greater moment. He looks out from the hills and moors of Gloucester, where the waves and the great gulls shoreward go and love and fame to nothingness do sink. Or he turns to a nearer wonderland, to a walled garden where the lilacs, now past their fullest bloom, but lovely still, run in purple and mauve along the quiet walks. A rampart of hills slope toward the sunset, and their sides are covered with the flower called the torch azalea, whose scentless beauty can teach...
Bankrupt Tiffany. When U. S. homes were filled with Victorian furniture and knickknacks crowded every mantel, sure to be in evidence was a vase or two of "Tiffany Favrile Glass," heavy and iridescent. This glass was the invention of Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of the late Charles Lewis Tiffany who founded Manhattan's famed Tiffany & Co., jewelers, silversmiths & stationers. Although Glassman Tiffany is a vice president, assistant treasurer and director of the jewel firm, painting and glasswork have been his chief interests...
Last week Louis Comfort Tiffany, 84 and feeble, lay ill abed, unwilling to discuss the voluntary bankruptcy of his glass company. It failed with listed assets of $315,000 mostly in receivables and inventory, liabilities of $481,000. Chief creditors are Mr. Tiffany himself ($223,000) and Bankers Trust...