Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After his son's death, the boy's father (Don Ameche) cannot bear to go back to his drugstore in a small Iowa town. He is scarcely able to endure the attempts of his wife (Frances Dee) to comfort him. But one Sunday morning the ghost of his grandfather (Harry Carey) materializes, wearing his G.A.R. hat. He takes the father on a leisurely saunter through the Sabbath silence of the town, and through his memories...
...been calculated, but most sociologists, who feel that the Sinatra complex is a phase of a mass-loneliness cycle caused by the war, would say that this will strengthen the whole thing: if the U. S. Army won't mother him, the girls will probably want to comfort him about the whole thing: he feels terrible about it. It appears that he had been boasting to his friends about how he was going to make the grade and become a private...
...Brave Boys. . . ." Patton's treatment dropped him into black anxiety. The other men tried to comfort him. Said one of the "brave boys" Patton had addressed: "It made me want to get out of the Army as fast as possible, because I thought we were fighting against such stuff...
...Most passenger equipment is outmoded and should be completely replaced with fast, streamlined trains. (One railroad executive admitted: "One of the radical departures is to consider the comfort and convenience of the passenger." Another: "The open-section Pullman car is as extinct as the dodo." Another: "We will never buy another heavyweight car . . . car builders will be swamped with orders for [streamlined] equipment...
Life in the Queen's rural retreats was excruciatingly dull. "It was not," says Biographer Ponsonby, "that the Queen was markedly inconsiderate, but she was thoughtless of all other considerations where her own comfort and convenience were concerned." No one was allowed to leave the castle while the Queen was inside. No one could leave except at times appointed by the Queen. Because she disliked fires, everybody shivered...