Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condemned and criticized I shall not murmur, because I remember that Sam Houston, the father of Texas, paid the same penalty. If I am hated and abused, I shall forgive my enemies and find comfort in the recollection that Jim Hogg,* when he laid down the reins of power, was also hated and abused...
...square. Before the preliminaries to the execution were arranged, one young boy started to cry. His companion, Valencia Gallardo, a boy less than 20 years old, showing great courage, tried to console his companion and called to him in a loud voice to pray to God for help and comfort...
...held my breath and swallowed hard; I tried coughing, sneezing, pounding my chest, clearing my throat; I went to a hospital-but still could not stop an attack of hiccoughing which hung upon me last week for two days and two nights. It would have afforded me small comfort to know that King George V's chaplain, the Very Rev. Dean Albert Victor Baillie of St. George's (Knights of the Garter) Chapel at Windsor Castle, England, was similarly afflicted in Manhattan four years ago, while visiting at the home of Arthur Curtiss James, financier, yachtsman, railroader...
There are those, on the other hand, who look with bitter envy on the Nizam. Imagine the feelings of a starving poet in his Greenwich Village garret, when he reads of this princely exploit. What books could he shower upon the world, had he only the power! He can comfort himself with the thought that the Nizam's works, at their present price at least, will probably not sell widely outside of Hyderabad...
...Some of her others are: acidulous Aunt Sarah, 99, with parrot and enema bags; dependable, blockheaded Charlotte, who marries Hoagland Driggs; the fat little heir across the street; wan, wishful Carrie, Aunt Sarah's slave; and-flashes-sultry, vivid Opal Mendoza, "bad girl," the only one whose words comfort Joe at all; squat, square, red-faced Effa, "simply killing," a perpetual circus, whose salt tears run into her broad mouth when she smells the lilacs and knows she will never have a lover...