Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American so raucously, so insistently, that they provided and inspired an enormous flood of dull, routine anecdotes. . . . Each of the nationalist lads has his own little counter to set up trade. From it he dispenses post cards, heavy with facts, guaranteed to counteract any itch that jeopardizes a continued comfort...
...curt post cards ("Brighton, Eng. Dear Mama: -This is England's great shore resort for poor people. That explains my being here."). He worked on his novel, resolved to dedicate it to "the best and truest friend I have ever had - the one person who has given love, comfort and understanding to my lonely and disordered life...
...Bainter as the mother is Saroyan's Cornelia: the mother of all the human race, who sees happiness through suffering, and finds solace in prayer. Father Ray Collins is dead, but his spirit returns at any given moment with words of comfort, and the MacCauleys are always aware of his presence...
...twice as alive as before. Can we get that across, first to our own men, and then out into the places where policies are made, so that our leaders will know that we care more for a sound peace than for the restoration of the exact degree of material comfort we had before...
Jack Johnson, first Negro heavyweight champion (1908-15); now 65, living in insecure comfort in Los Angeles. He went to court last week with his pretty white wife Irene, defeated his white landlady's attempt to evict them. Ebony-bald, plump but fit, he was smartly dressed, had a prosperous air, told reporters he was "retired...