Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power which had been taken from them. Slemp was at hand and in no sympathy with Mr. Butler's futile efforts at the last minute to swing the nomination to Judge Kenyon, Representative Burton or Secretary Hoover. The Old Guard, resenting Butler's domination and doubtless with the comfort if not the abetment of Slemp, seized the first candidate who, it seemed, could defeat Butler's choice. First Lowden? then Dawes...
...itself and its candidates to stand inflexibly for government by due process of law and against all groups, open or secret, which attempt to take the law into their own hands. If its candidates are elected, this party gives assurance that no act of theirs will render aid or comfort to any organization based on prejudice or discrimination against any citizens for reasons of race, color, or creed...
...commercial managers because they will not satisfy the gods of the box office. When he and his wife are on the verge of starvation, his mother-in-law harangues him into taking a lucrative position as editor of the more crimson type of magazine. They are now in comfort, but his yearning soul threatens to burn him up. He wants to do the finer and better things. Fortunately he is stopped in time. Discouraged by lack of recognition in the sphere he covets, he shoots himself where the brain is assumed to be. His body is brought...
...spirited, in spite of it all. A mere up-start who wins his way to the proud title of duke pays for his vanity o ver thirteen thousand dollars, so that the belted earl whose coronet has come down from father to son through dim and distant generations can comfort himself with the reflection that the ambitious climber is charged a pretty penny for his purple. In fact so steep is the price that many honest laboring men find it more advantageous to refuse glittering but costly honors, and remain unadorned but wealthy members of the common herd...
...rise to congratulate the Crime and the Class of 1924 on their joint achievement of complete normaley after all these years? It is a great comfort to feel that at last we are back on sure and familiar ground, wrangling and shouting over the good old stock subjects--socialism and pacifism. Now the advanced thinkers of the class are deminding that the floor of the Union be made wide open to all comers and no holds barred. Well, why not? All the other fields have been exhausted to the point that even the Debating Union cannot survive on the stubble...