Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several months ago, Colonel William Mitchell of the Army Air Service was too candid in the expression of his opinions concerning the way affairs of aviation were being conducted in the United States--too candid, that is, for the comfort of those in charge; not candid enough, perhaps, to satisfy the curiosity of civilians. As a result of his frankness, he is now appearing before a court-martial. In theory, he is being tried for insubordination and other offenses. In fact, the Navy department is being tried for maladministration and inefficiency...
...once does this happen, but again and again. The plumbing in Farnsworth is an old offender. If there is no other remedy, why not sacrifice luxury to comfort and move the reserved volumes to some retreat in the basement where at least there is quiet...
...second factor is going to be increased speed. The coming car of exclusive character, Chrysler declares, will have 100 horsepower and be able to attain speeds up to 90 miles an hour for sustained intervals without overheating. Combined with this increased speed will be greater riding comfort...
...American people are in truth, forcing existence to become a continual observance of creeds. The gentleman of the smoking compartment must air his doctrine of motors and money, while the intellectual sniffs and tries to read his Proust in comfort. There can be no blended tastes, no unconventional tastes. The only individuality allowed is offered by inebriacy, and even that has its creed. Every action is timed and tried in the effort for an effect when the spotlight of public opinion is turned upon the individual. Not what one likes but what he must like, what is going to save...
Austen Chamberlain came home from Geneva. Stanley Baldwin was just home from Aix-les-Bains. But it is doubtful whether either took comfort in his homecoming. For a storm seemed brewing. Unemployment, a coal subsidy, industry running down hill?and then that query from George B. Hunter, the shipbuilder, that query echoed by half a dozen of the country's industrialists: "Are we on the road to ruin?" The question put directly in a public letter to Mr. Baldwin...