Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparison to the way many Englishmen feel and talk about the U. S., the Kipling "rebuke" by allegory and innuendo actually was "frank and familiar." But Englishmen who feel and talk otherwise took comfort from the fact that, though loud, Mr. Kipling is not laureate. In his heyday he was most useful, hymning England's dominion over palm and pine, glossing British exploitation by soul-stirring references to the White Man's Burden, making Empire-Building a very real, brutal, glorious thing for schoolboys to dream about. As late as last spring, during the coal strike, his first...
...never forget that all this is but the carapace in which may or may not live a vital being. That being must be a functioning, purposive entity, the function and the purpose of whose existence is the educating of young men for their life after graduation. So in the comfort which already is possessed and in that further comfort which undoubtedly must come, one must remember that his particular duty as a member of Harvard is to keep the comfort of more bricks in nice and orderly Colonial Georgian from cloistering too completely his efficiency as a Harvard student...
...once exuberantly climbed a pillar in one of London's most fashionable music halls and demanded cheers for the ladies of pleasure to be found in the lobby. Theirs were, he said, the only breasts on which a roving English soldier's head was always sure of comfort and repose...
...troubled situations that reaches far beyond the particular persons and scenes to include all men's troubles, of all kinds. Finally, there is gentle, whimsical accuracy of detail, in few words-how little mules trot; an Italian undertaker "ostentatiously piddling through his ornate futilities"; an executive's comfort in his row of pearl-topped desk buttons; a kitty named John the Baptist...
...period of 'watchful waiting' or any other such procedure is over. We, as American citizens, demand of our Government that this action be taken forthwith. Although our Government has for years emphatically refused to recognize the Soviet regime of Russia, it has continued to countenance, aid and comfort the Bolshevist forces of Carranza, Obregon and Calles...