Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the National Manufacturer's Association, President Coolidge received comfort. The association's chief, John E. Edgerton of Tennessee, notified the Senate Finance Committee that U. S. manufacturers regard "excessive" tax reduction as "a reckless invitation to an Executive veto under the President's responsibility to sustain a balanced budget." More, the manufacturers specifically endorsed the Administration's latest tax-reduction estimate - $182,000,000 in case of a 30-million...
Samuel Parkes Cadman. 63-year-old Brooklyn clergyman and dispenser of comfort by correspondence, addressing a meeting of Baptist deacons last week in Atlanta, Ga., mused wistfully: "I wish that we might have one more Protestant Mayor of New York before...
...harness" within the past dozen years. "Probably every one of them had his life shortened by the frightful conditions of the chamber. One only needs to look over the Senate in session to know that this thermos bottle is still doing deadly work to the health, strength and comfort of Senators...
...general, the new plane duplicates the old. It will have slight changes in design: larger fin, larger rudder, larger stabilizer, to insure improved control. Special lights will ease night flying. Like modern automobiles, it will have class as well as comfort: silk mohair upholstery with deep-cushioned chairs...
...told in an editorial that "Lampy has thrown open his pages to the ardent versifiers and enlarged his already spacious garret for their comfort." From the samples he gives us, our only regret is that there are not more of these rondeaus, ballads, and other charming whatnots of the facile versifier's art, which might have taken the place of a few of the prose selections; for some of the latter are--well--as we have said before, not after his best manner, which is putting it charitably. Of particular feebleness are the two attempts on pages one twenty...