Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asking too much of civilians to give up a little of their comfort so that some one else might win security for them? The President speaks of more & more sacrifices. Sacrifices-hell! Is it a sacrifice to defend one's self against impending disaster? What a ludicrous and tragic situation that soldiers must beg, actually beg, for arms to defend people who, by their very actions, don't seem to give a damn. The fine American institution of the Sunday motor trip is far more important than a boatload of supplies to the tankmen and aviators in Egypt...
Plain Sister Ruth (Rosalind Russell) and lovely Sister Eileen (Janet Blair) leave Columbus, Ohio for a basement apartment in Greenwich Village and literary and stage careers respectively. Work on an incipient subway rocks the floor every few minutes. A dog mistakes the bars of their window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius...
...cold figures the only cold comfort came from the fact that the birth rate for 1942's first quarter was higher than in any similar period since 1931. While World War I had dissipated the procreative instinct, World War II, during which much of the army has stayed home, seemed to be stimulating...
Other U.S. furniture designers likewise pondered how to streamline the apparatus of the U.S. home, rock the foundation of the furniture trade. Two designers stood out. Each has designed modern furniture that combines common sense with a reasonable amount of beauty and a reasonable amount of comfort...
Farley Still Had the Votes. The air-conditioning fizzled; the ballroom became an oven; delegates shed coats, opened collars. Jim Farley, seeking comfort, had an outside freight elevator drawn up to an open door behind the platform. There he sat on a gilded ballroom chair, fanning himself with a newspaper. Henchmen and enemies walked over, whispered, walked away...