Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife of a mortician. If you could see, for even a week, the intense strain they are under and the comfort they give in their work, you'd refrain from your blasts. How many other men work day and night, seven days a week, going out in all kinds of weather, to ease the despair and pain of the bereaved ? Any financial benefits would never recompense for the inconvenience, hard work, loss of family life, etc., these men incur. . . . A doctor, dentist, or any other professional man may refuse to go when called but the "undertaker" never takes that...
...members of the University so blind or cowardly in spirit as to clamor for neutrality when all hope of neutrality is dead, they should commune with themselves in private and find reflection in the definition of traitors as those ". . . adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." (April...
...their assiduous devotion to internal improvement, the editors permitted the building to deteriorate unnoticed for the next twenty years, until by 1946 it had become a menace to safety as well as comfort and efficiency. Abandoning their former expedient of moving to new grounds, a building fund was raised and during the past summer the entire building was renovated in modern style...
Record royalties ($1,756,435 in 1946, about $2,000,000 in 1947) gave Petrillo an enviable opportunity to soothe and comfort his followers and dramatize his fierce boast that he toiled only for the welfare of "the boys." He spent the royalty money employing musicians in free public concerts, the lion's share of it outside New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, the three big cities of the music world. Thus records provided extra employment -though not for the men who made them...
...bronze casket with a quilted satin lining. Of course the widow would want the body to be on view in the "reposing room" before the ceremony. The service could be held either in the "chapel" or in a regular church, whichever she preferred, but it would be a great comfort to know that her late husband would be laid away in a vault of waterproof cement, guaranteed to give protection "not for years, not for life, but forever." The whole thing would come to about...