Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precarious pastime of doping the ponies, are the only suggestion to befuddled crystal gazers. Except for an informal affair with the Alumni last Saturday, tonight's plunge represents the baptismal sprinkling in competition for the Crimson watermen. A 51 to 15 victory score here offers scant comfort in itself, but Ulen appeared to be holding his heavy guns in reserve...
...student body's point of view, was the joint demonstration by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Veterans Theater, who teamed up willy-nilly to illustrate the undeniable fact that there is now no available stage from which a college-sized organization can operate with any degree of comfort. Hampered by University restrictions on what can and what cannot be done to the physical properties of Sanders Theater, the HDC had to work something of a seene-shifting miracle, operate without benefit of a curtain, and speak their lines in an acoustical monstrosity in order to stage their show...
...first expose, so he offers a message now for a new national environment. During the war he pointed to the menace of soditionists, working for Germany under the protection of democratic civil liberties. Today he shows that the same men who lent aid and comfort to the Nazis three years ago have embarked on another, more ominous, adventure. "Their most important objective is to capture postwar America's most precions prize: the mind of the veteran...
...Democrats could take some comfort from Columnist Walter Lippman, who had written, after the Republican debacle in 1932: "It is always a mistake to assume that either of the two American parties is dead, however divided and crushed it may seem to be. Herbert Croly (founder of the New Republic) used to say that the two parties were virtually indestructible because they were low-grade organisms, which had neither a brain nor a heart that could be stopped, and so you could cut them in half and the two halves would wiggle on and somehow grow together again...
...ushers stalk down the two center aisles, confront each other at the front of the house and then retrace their steps to the rear, meanwhile eyeing the audience and staring down curious spectators. Sumner insists that the sole purpose of the maneuver is to attend to the convenience and comfort of his audiences and denies all reports of morning drill sessions for his usher corps...