Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restrained from vulgarizing and holding up to ridicule a name so far held as honorable among us? Can they continue to misrepresent the American ladies whose sons and husbands are proud to prepare to defend them, and who are too busy lending their hands to aid and comfort those same dear men to defend themselves against such embarrassing associations, however falsely assumed...
...many an isolationist Republican Congressman, Willkie is still as profane a word as Roosevelt. Yet, with primaries only a few months away, it was time for politicians to listen to the voice of the people back home-and last week there was little comfort in that voice for diehards...
When the new tax rates were announced (TIME, April 14) telephone operators and chauffeurs took comfort in the knowledge that a tycoon's income of $274,000 would shrink to $20,000. Until last week they had not realized that a married man earning $18 a week would pay $1.40 weekly tax, that an office boy earning $10 a week would have to fork over...
That's what makes the Cambridge department one of the best-run and most frequently imitated in New England. Ensconced in their almost new $24,000 building, equal in comfort to most Harvard clubs, the men have a strong sense of common responsibility not only towards the property which they protect and the lives under their care, but for their own living quarters as well. The "housework" is distributed among themselves on a sort of Platonesque basis, and the 50-odd men take turns in doing the floor-waxing, window,-scrubbing, and brass polishing which keeps their establishment as spotless...
...Washington that he had become a straphanger because cabs were beyond his means. ∙∙Debating food rations for men and women in the services, Lady Astor denied women ate less than men, told Parliament, "I eat far more than my husband." ∙∙ Pursuing his dream of total comfort, elegance, and efficiency, Winston Churchill blossomed out in mirror-bright shoes equipped with zippers. His actress daughter Sarah, 27, joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force of the R.A.F. (another daughter, Mary, is already in the Auxiliary Territorial Service.) ∙∙World War I draft dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll...