Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no comfort for Daniel in Bullockdean with the girl he loved in another man's bed across the street. So he said good-by to his mother, who had never cared much for him, and went to live with her people, the laughing citizens of Sark. One night, on a haymaker's holiday, he visited a dance hall, found there a girl who was about to go on the streets. Reflecting that she might as well appropriate the tatters of his own dereliction, he took her to wife in a cottage fronting the golden fields, walled...
There is always the comfort, however, whenever scientists brilliantly expose a popular superstition, that no one will believe them. The truth about bees, while it may be used by bee-keepers, will be rejected by makers of nursery rhymes, public moralizers, and by anyone else who wishes to point triumphantly to nature as setting an example...
...Browning didn't write it. In fact, no one wrote these words of comfort and wisdom. So the student is left to shift upon his own devices...
...hypocrisy was too great, however. Soon he was off to Canada, where he established a most profitable counterfeiting establishment beyond reach of the U. S. law. That he wound up in the Catholic Church argues, perhaps, a retarded outcropping of his Puritanical upbringing ; perhaps one last hypocrisy to ensure comfort in old age. The rhetorical, mock-modest manner of his memoirs, which he published to a wide audience in 1811, indicate the complete hypocrite -a varlet of guile and gusto to whom a naive generation quite naturally credited unnatural sins and the comradeship of Satan. Poet Frost, in a preface...
...London papers commended the President for sending his old hat to be re-blocked for Easter. They animadverted upon that glorious Duke of Devonshire who appeared at the smartest spring races year after year in the same hat. He kept his hat for comfort, not economy. Finally, 24 lady friends sent him 24 new hats on the same day. He accepted the gifts, never wore the hats...