Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Spackman's university students may not agree that the Aeneid contains an exciting love affair [TIME, Sept. 13], but I wish to assure him that high-school students (at least the girls) do. Most of them are strong partisans of Dido. It is some comfort to them and restores Aeneas somewhat in their estimation, to run across the lines where he says he did not leave Dido willingly, but because of the orders of the gods...
...Male Teat. Few of Grand Central's sightseers were inclined to carp. To them, the Century's elegances were a glimpse of unknown comfort, a far cry from the jolting realities of everyday railroad travel. The truth was that the U.S. citizen, in his capacity as a passenger, had generally been regarded by the railroads as a damn nuisance. Until very recent times, the railroads have been mainly interested in freight. Empire Builder Jim Hill, gloomily contemplating one of his Great Northern Railway's Limiteds, once remarked: "A passenger train is like the male teat-neither useful...
...Freshman is a sometime thing. You eventually get over it. In the next few days that fact will be your only comfort in a buzzing confusion of headaches and heartaches. Most of your discomfiture will stem from two sources: (1) living accommodations and (2) course selection...
Beneath a gleaming chrome and glass marquee, celebrities swarmed one night this week to the opening of Manhattan's new $300,000 French movie theater, the Paris. They had paid $12.50 a head to look at one another and a movie (La Symphonic Pastorale), test the comfort of the 571 natural-birch seats, and sip coffee and bouillon in the lounge...
Like a woman getting up her courage for a new hairdo, Collier's looked in the mirror-and decided to make some changes. The new Look and the Saturday Evening Post, smartened up by Editor Ben Hibbs, were proving far too attractive for Collier's comfort. This week, following an editorial shake-up (TIME, June 7), Collier's underwent a face-lifting and put on a new dress...