Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marquise de Polignac, onetime Manhattan Socialite Nina Crosby, since 1917 wife of the master of France's great champagne house (Pommery), was jailed in Paris as an alleged collaborationist. To comfort her in her confinement, she had an air mattress on her bed, stores of cosmetics, plenty of clothes. She said she had driven an ambulance before the Nazis came, denied that she had been a collaborator, claimed to have won seven prisoners their freedom through her German embassy acquaintances...
From this latest pragmatic pronouncement on a common but still mysterious human ill, laymen could take but cold comfort: after 2,394 years of medical science, doctors still disagree on the cause & cure of the common cold...
...Jimmy Johnson, Willie Smith, et al, still play the best Dixieland in the City and pack the bistro nightly ... Frankie Newton was bending an elbow at the bar and we adjourned to his apartment to admire his paintings ... No kidding, Frankie is doing some fine stuff and the Southern Comfort was fine... Newt has left George's but plays every Tuesday at the Pied Piper...
...will. They were indignant at discovering that he had canceled $20,000 in bequests because of their "contemptuous attitude" towards his male tiger cat, Buster (TIME, Aug. 21). Rand left Buster $40,000, and added in his will: "Any personal property of mine which would add to his comfort, such as my radio, sweaters, three electric fans . . . shall be at his disposal...
...General Staff in Ottawa, he found all hands working seven man-killing days a week. He issued an order limiting the hours of work, as binding on himself as on anyone else. Characteristically, he made it plain that he was not interested in the staff's comfort or pleasure, but in the "maintenance of good health and mental well-being...