Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victor Jerome Frederic Napoleon Bonaparte, 64, pretender to the throne of France, head of the House of Bonaparte, husband of Princess Clémentine of Belgium (daughter of the late King Leopold), scholar, student, connoisseur; at Brussels, Belgium, where his large private fortune enabled him to live in the retired comfort which he loved. He was known as one of the greatest European authorities on the U. S. Constitution. He is "succeeded" by his 12-year-old son, Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, for whom Napoleon Clémentine will act as "regent" until he becomes...
...nation whose temperamental and political difficulties are such that at the end of eight years since the War its budget does not even balance; 3) France's political and economic importance made it essential that a practical, friendly agreement should be made for the diplomatic and economic comfort of the world...
...these days, food and tobacco are the two chief stimulants to well-considered syllables. A good meal provides the indispensable feeling of comfort; a cigar or a pipe prolongs the sensation of ease which, if not interrupted by an unseemly clatter of dishes, is provocative of talk and thought. And in college, the conversation can never be entirely of finances and finesses. Since the business of a student is culture, his shop talk necessarily is of the arts...
...habit once established has a fair chance of invading the graduate's realm, always provided the elements of comfort are supplied. Both in college and out, a vital connection exists between cultural conversation and the baser materials of life...
...longer can the Harvard smile exist as some member of certain polytechnical institutions words his love of old Building 399B. Harvard too has her lapses into crispness of phrasing. Yet her sacrifice is far too great for comfort. Pity the future dweller in the waste lands beyond the freshman dormitories who must spend his college years in old D Hall. Of course that will not be like living in E, or even D. But it will be bad enough. The officers of the school should certainly admit their literary limitations and offer a prize for names. Luchre, Mammon, Rimmon...