Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great and lasting achievements are not built on Persian rugs, nor do dreams completely crystalize into accomplishment in well furnished apartments. The average citizen is much too possessed of comfort. Nor is it difficult to gain. One has but to stay long enough with a large corporation or get high enough in a small one; one has but to write down to the public--and success drops comfortable laurels on brows never wet with anything but delightfully refreshing showers...
...Cleveland News rejoiced. Gone from its evening field was "the ablest journalist between Chicago and Manhattan." The Plain Dealer was irked. Gone was the comfort of its accidental monopoly, for on the scene had come a man who not only knew how to cater to Cleveland's melting-pot citizenry but who had also an impressive 30-year record as reorganizer and builder on other links in the Scripps-Howard chain and as organizer of the flourishing Newspaper Enterprise Association (feature service). His ability and personality had won him a host of friends in town and through the state...
...national advertising of this popular brand of a universal necessity and comfort to women, is said to have an interesting history. The editor of a large women's magazine long maintained that it would not be delicate to publish the advertisements. Finally, after one of many conferences, the promoter of Kotex asked the editor for permission to speak with his female secretary, in his presence. The surprised editor acceded and after a few minutes of frank sensible talk, during which the secretary appeared in no wise offended but on the contrary pleased, enthusiastic, the advertising was accepted for publication...
...elements of comfort are sufficiently few that the world can not afford to despise any of them. Aside from the pleasures of perspiration, and the more exuberant of evening joys, not many diversions are at hand. Vitally necessary it is therefore to conserve the placid comforts of a smoking jacket. In spite of the anti-tobacco league, the weed remains the constant solace of a harried soul. Since the time of Walter Raleigh, men have profited by the genial warmth of a mouthy fireplace...
...body of fairly reliable fact has become public property-through indiscreet wives, brazen peepers and sheer accident-with the currency of which the inscrutable ones would not be so foolish as to quarrel. Thus, it is known that one "tomb" is furnished in the acme of masculine comfort, all its furniture being heavily upholstered in black leather; that over a bathtub hangs a portrait in oils of Napoleon; that each "tomb" has its windowless "shrine" or ceremonial chamber where the most unmentionable rites are performed; that the central motive of each brotherhood is mutual fealty and assistance in time...