Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a sense of comfort even religion cannot afford that I read in TIME (May 15) the fine article on "handsome, patrician Joseph Clark Grew." For so long you have described and accented the personal defects of politicians, statesmen, actors & actresses, and other persons of prominence as "bowlegged or knock-kneed, or hair-lipped or cross-eyed, or bald or paunchy" that it is a real and solid pleasure to know that Ambassador Grew is "handsome and patrician," and . . . makes me feel that my belief and faith in TIME as a pleasure-giving, information-gathering publication has not been misplaced...
...idol, old Marshal Pétain, himself a rebel in his younger days, dismissed it all as "witticisms." De Gaulle got his colonelcy at a reasonably early age (47), but that was poor comfort. Just before the Germans fell upon France, he wrote one last memorandum, warning of the danger in trusting to the forests around Sedan in lieu of proper defenses. Nobody paid attention. Frustrated, agonizingly sure of what was to happen, equally sure that he might have saved France, Charles de Gaulle went into battle...
...supporter and confidante to whom Ubico undoubtedly looked for comfort was a remarkable woman named Julita Quiñones. Officially, she is at the head of a Government bureau in charge of meals and supplies for public schools. Actually, she wields power in scale with her bulk (Guatemalans swear that she is 6 ft. 7 in. tall...
...coast and in concentrations among northwest Europe's interlaced highways and railroads, the Wehrmacht was as ready for invasion as it ever would be. Germans could take comfort in the thought that never, except in the last crushing moments of ultimate defeat, had they had to apologize for the professional performance of their army. Even in retreat it was soldierly, resourceful, self-possessed...
...Sullivan Rubber Co. ("America's No. 1 Heel"), an evangelist by temperament, a Republican by adoption. He left West Virginia a poor boy, came back rich at 50 to spend "the afternoon of my life with my own people." That afternoon is being spent in considerable comfort in a 34-room mansion near Charles Town built in 1820 by a grandnephew of George Washington, and "restored" last year by Mrs. Funkhouser. His opponents like to point out that he teaches Sunday School in one wing of the mansion and plays poker in the other. This is true but somewhat...