Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uproot themselves and their female guests and leave the Houses for the great outdoors. These men, deprived by the College of any place in which to entertain, are pushed into Boston's public night spots and theatres when they might normally choose to pass the evening in the relative comfort and sanctity of their rooms. It is a sadly warped social life that can include no private parties and that leaves a man idling away his after-theatre hour in a noisy cocktail lounge instead of in the easy talk and companionship that can come only with familiar, personalized surroundings...
...Yard dormitory rule requiring chaperons to keep an eye on potentially amorous Freshmen is a needless irritant. At best, the chaperon system acts as a front to comfort parents worried about the intoxicating effect of almost unlimited freedom on their sons. At worst, it simply lingers as an obsolete carry, over from the old arrangement that held the bumptious Freshman in his "proper" place. Surely any such prep-schoolish requirement--that two "disinterested observers" oversee the activities of one couple--should follow having and beanies into oblivion...
...think the responsibility of keeping the home full of love and comfort," said Novelist Hans Habe generously to a woman interviewer, "is at least as great as making a buck." The author of A Thousand Shall Fall did not mean, he hastened to add, that women should "just stay in the kitchen," but: "After all, somebody has to bring home the bacon and somebody has to cook it. But it is not a natural man's nature to bake the bacon...
...Best-Seller Betty Smith, little noted since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, worked on a play and a movie, had a new book about Brooklyn coming out next spring, meantime mused to an interviewer: "I'm getting too used to luxury. Writers shouldn't have too much comfort-all they need is warmth and enough to eat. . . . What I long for is the feeling of dreaming of a bright future again...
...Saudi Arabia's lean, bearded Prince Feisal could be seen plainly as he whispered with Iraq's jumpy Fadhil Jamali, surrounded by a bodyguard packing gold swords and blue-steel .453. The Servant of God and Sword of Islam, Abdullah Saif, would cool his heels in luxurious comfort at the Sherry-Netherlands while the Assembly debated the admission of his tiny state of Yemen...