Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shaw shared the comforts of her big Long Island home with 23 Pekinese, named Yummie, Fuzz Wuzz, Cuddles, Baby Dear, Honey Child, etc. She also had a Brussels griffon, a black Persian cat and a dachshund named Poopchin. When Mrs. Shaw died last month, her will asked an old friend, Mrs. Ita Mae McGuire of Napanee, Ont., to adopt her 26-pet menagerie, left her a trust fund of $100,000 for their comfort...
Reasoned Luxury. As usual, G.I. Joe looked for the reason behind this "environment characterized by mental and physical relaxation and comfort," as the War Department called it. The reason was not hard to find...
William sailed away to China with the Royal Navy. Ashore he met a satin-cheeked Chinese girl, who murmured: "You will comfort me. . . ." When William woke up his money was gone-as was the girl and the Royal Navy. Fearful of being charged with desertion, William fled to New Zealand, soon became a successful pioneer and a heavy drinker...
Buster. In Brookline, Mass., the late Lawyer Woodbury Rand left $40,000 to his pet alley-cat Buster. To his housekeeper he left Buster's comb, brush, harness and an extra $40,000 to provide for the cat's additional comfort. To nine outraged relatives he left nothing. Reason: ". . . their contemptuous attitude and cruelty...
...though the subdued hum of the household behind the closed door, the murmur of the capital beyond the curtained windows, and further away still the vast chatter of the continents all blended together for him into a sort of music in whose warm and complex counterpoint he found comfort and a sense of ultimate harmony...