Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schools for rookies, or to new companies, or to the First Armored Division at Fort Knox, Ky. Still more had been ordered to report to the Third and Fourth Armored Divisions, now being organized. This dispersion was inevitable in the expanding new Army; but this knowledge did not comfort Company D's old men, to whom "the company'' was family, home, the Army itself. Major Kengla had just been promoted from captain, ordered to duty as a battalion executive. A mere lieutenant had been given command of Company...
...wash our own mess kits. In fact we don't even have mess kits, all we have to do is eat. The plates, hotel china, are washed by cooks in the automatic dishwashers. . . . Honestly one cannot possibly exaggerate the utter comfort we have...
Died. William Constant Wheeler, 93, last son of a soldier in the American Revolution; after a stroke; at South Woodbury, Vt. His father, Comfort Wheeler, enlisted in 1780 at the age of 14, and served as General Nathanael Greene's orderly. Born when his father was 81, Constant himself fought in the Civil...
After seven minutes, during which the Crimson kept the pressure on the Williams nets, the home players surged ahead again on Comfort's tally, but again their lead was short-lived. George Duane passed to Ayres to kuoi the score...
they should portray the romance and adventure of flying instead of ... comfort and speed. So he gave my theory a test and it proved out-at least we are . . . married and the advertising is being changed." Marriage Revealed. Hilda Jane Lehman, 19, adopted daughter of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Boris de Vadetsky, 27, onetime WPA actor, World War II ambulance driver; after eloping to Elkton, Md., Dec. 1. The Governor, declared his secretary, knew his son-in-law "only slightly." Died. C. Harold Wills, 62, automotive pioneer and founder of the old Wills...