Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are, of course, bourbon whiskey and rye whiskey. There is, I am credibly informed, Irish whiskey. And, above all, there is-for the comfort of men of good will within and without the British Empire-Scotch whisky...
...college. The French engineer earns good pay, but black markets keep decent rations, shoes and clothing out of his grasp.. . . The man in the cab in India, on $39 a month, never sees fruit for his family, rarely gets meat. The veteran engineer in London still struggles for comfort. Good food is hard to get, clothing too high-priced for him.. . . Only in Stockholm and New York does the engineer know true comfort...
...many a man, as for a tanned National Park Ranger named Bill Butler, it would be a rare day of rest, warmth and comfort. The odds had favored Bill Butler's spending Christmas high on glacier-scarred Mount Rainier. For four days he had been battling Arctic cold, avalanches and the dead-white swirl of alpine blizzards in a search for a lost Marine Corps transport plane. But a fall on rock-fanged ice had finally sent him skiing painfully back to his snug cottage in a timber-bordered Government camp. With his torn ribs healing he would idle...
Delvaux, 49, who really does look like Keaton (and poses before a mirror as his own model), lives and works in solid comfort on Brussels' conservative Rue d'Ecosse. He is a dreamer who reads little, belongs to no church, no political party. The tables and cupboards in his studio are cluttered with seven human skulls, and the walls are banked with huge, infinitely complicated paintings. (A recent one, called Unrest in the City, includes some 1,200 figures.) Says he: "I work patiently and minutely like the Flemish primitives, Van Eyck and Memling." He paints on plywood...
...which stars twinkle and fleecy white clouds float around. Says Bill Karzas, who never had time to polish his English: "We think what people want, we appeal to the five senses. We give good music for ear, beautiful place for eye, fresh air for smell, good chairs for comfort, and special ice cream for taste...