Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cooke '32, has enabled the Crimson team to edge the Cavalry, Lancers, 101st Field Artillery, and Westwood trios. The Indoor Polo Association of America voted on a one-point raise in Cooke's and Luton's handicaps at its meeting in New York on Wednesday, a move which should comfort the Tiger forces to some extent. Another point in favor of a stiff Princeton resistance is the fact that L. S. Dillingham '34, star Crimson forward, will not see action tomorrow as he is still convalescing from an operation, which caused Coach Sharp to change the line...
...sitting corpselike in a wineshop, an untasted bottle before him, passively allowing the flies to attack a pimple on his forehead. It develops that for the old man the bottom has dropped out of everything. Gone sour are the immaterial wines of love, hope, desire. Sole remaining comfort, a drop of real grape, his family has denied him because it made him rowdy. Consolation he finds "by coming here and reminding myself that, while my sorrow is real enough now, all I should have to do would be to take a thimbleful of wine and it would be gone." Touched...
...Fortescue, was seized by five natives, carried out toward Waikiki Beach, brutally and repeatedly raped. The attack made her pregnant, necessitated an operation. Navy men and the permanent white residents of Honolulu boiled with outrage and indignation. Mrs. Fortescue hurried from her Long Island home to the islands to comfort and help her pretty daughter. Brought to trial for the attack were five brown-skinned young bucks, among them Horace Ida and Joe Kahahawai. The court proceedings were a publicity circus for the half-caste natives. Mrs. Massie testified to the events of her horrible night, identified Kahahawai...
...bigger babies are at birth, the more troubles mothers & doctors have delivering them into life. Just why many babies are born too big for comfort a nd safety has always puzzled Medicine. For a long time doctors thought that elderly primiparae (women who had their first pregnancy after 30) would have oversize offspring. But just a year ago Dr. James Knight Quigley, Rochester, N. Y. specialist in obstetrics & gynecology, presented good evidence that the old supposition is not true. Babies of such women averaged, in his series of births, 7 Ib. 8½ oz., which is about normal...
...guests what they want most on earth. The actress (Mary Nash) wants applause and to play Lady Macbeth; the painter (Ernest Cossart) to paint beautifully; the novelist (Ernest Thesiger) to achieve literary kudos; the minister's frowzy wife (Cecilia Loftus) to do her duty; the host (Arthur Byron) wants comfort; his lovely mistress (Diana Wynward) wants love; the disillusioned minister (Robert Lorain) desires advancement so that he may denounce God from the tip-top of High Church...