Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been built by man." Then he went back to God's country and told his wife they were through living in tents; he had decided to build a two-room cottage where he could rest his 280 pounds during the long winter night and draw in comfort. Also, he had sampled civilization's delights and now wanted to sit by a stove...
John O. Cate, manager of the S. S. Pierce rum refectory, has been conducting a sale of that West Indian brew for the last week. "Harvard men like scotch," he sighed, looking at the unsold rum, "but they will respond to Southern Comfort as well as General Grant...
...power. Bathhouse John died in 1938, old and broke. But Hinky Dink stayed on at his old stand in the First Ward. Then, in 1943, diabetes and old age beat him down. He retired to a hotel room. His fortune (estimated at $2,000,000) afforded him but little comfort beyond the dozen $1 cigars he smoked every day. He died attended only by a male nurse...
...There was nothing to be done about the original editorial in the Japanese-language paper. That had already been distributed to 250,000 readers. But Censor Willoughby could find some comfort in its concluding words...
...literary odds & ends. Many of the selections are obvious and familiar (the classic Gettysburg and Second Inaugural addresses, etc.); many are curious, little-known bits-such as Lincoln's grateful testimonial to a corncutter: "Dr. Zachariehas operated on my feet with great success, and considerable addition to my comfort...