Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What was to the bargees merely an unwarranted disturbance of early morning comfort, was, to newspapers, material for front pages desecrated by a lack of transoceanic flights and prizefights. The man so scornfully described by the lazy fellows, was in reality James J. Walker, Mayor of New York, who had been abroad for two months. Surely the adjectives applied by the bargees were out of order; they had read, no doubt, in spare moments, accounts of the Mayor's whiskey-tippling in England, his beer-drinking in Germany, his liquid luncheons in Italy, his wine-bibbing in France...
...automatically make an upperclassman, as it does a Freshman, a subject of disciplinary action: but the bad failures at November are inappropriately called "exceptional," and retribution follows. Often it comes as a surprise. The Sophomore has not the advantages of the Freshman. There is no one to warn, comfort, and command him and the autumnal slaughter of the innocent is consequently widespread...
...rains of Cambridge, the conduit is drained into a pit back of the New Lecture Hall. Here also is the fork in the tunnel which leads to the Peabody Museum. Traces of all this renovation may be found in sporadic puffs of steam near Memorial Hall and in increased comfort in the altered buildings...
Undergraduates who pass through the Johnston Gate between Massachusetts and Harvard Halls are very likely to think of these most venerable of Yard buildings as just two old structures, quaint and pleasant to look at perhaps, but hardly comparable for comfort or utility with newer edifices. Harvard contains a collection of musty classrooms, with desks and benches like the little red schoolhouse, cut deep with the initials of years of bored listeners to lectures. Remodeled Massachusetts houses Seniors in desirable rooms which are the object of nothing but envy on the part of the undergraduate...
...aided by the French Red Cross. Along the Cours la Reine, the Parkway along the Right bank of the Seine, the Red Cross headquarters were set up. There Salvation Army lassies got ready to dole out doughnuts to ex-doughboys and there arose serried rows of first aid and comfort stations. Throughout the capital the French Red Cross erected first aid stations particularly along the route of the proposed triumphal march...