Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among us would change places with our civilian sisters? Who would give up the comfort of flat heels and lisles, or our little gremlin suits or the mail-box mob or rows of wet white gloves, or disbursing problems, or our mail from Bu Sand A? Not We! We Would rather flirt with Portsmouth. After all, you could win fame knitting socks for chilly sailors-and who knows, membership in the Portsmouth Outing Club could be exciting-well novel anyway...
Note: Any activity issuing or receiving the above item will immediately burn prime accounting paper in order to prevent aid or comfort to the enemy. Storage precaution: Disintegrates and evaporates instantly when handled...
...Chicago's No. 1 shopping thoroughfare. But south of Van Buren Street, lower boundary of the "L" loop, there is an equally famous part of State Street: a scabrous collection of saloons, shooting galleries, hock shops, flea markets, peep shows, "red hot" burlesques and flophouses ("clean quiet comfort for 30?"), smack in the middle of Chicago's notorious First Ward, once an important Al Capone domain...
...these soft, comfortable, protective principles, inducing decay, could not have been consistent with our great American pioneering tradition. Strength comes from practice and struggle, not from comfort and protection. Would a monopoly have been as bold in the development of equipment. . . ? What incentive would there have been for it to get up early and work late to develop its business? In the scales of American business, reasonable competition is good, it has made us strong and we want to keep it. We must continue to depend upon the strong yeast of competition to keep us growing...
...Near the Water. Thus the U.S. vacationer, with two weeks to spend and nowhere to go, could only curse Hitler and turn a sour eye on his home-town swimming pool, zoo, golf course, movies, ball park, race track. Or he could try to take philosophic comfort from the worldlywise, 400-year-old advice of Cervantes: "Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger and thirst...