Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Mayor Walker was thus engaged, Manhattan newsreaders were depressed and confounded to read upon the editorial page of tho sedate New York Times an article which 'definitely jeered at the second busiest holder of public office in the U. S. Said the Times: "It is a comfort to New Yorkers to think of their Mayor dressed in a double-breasted grey coat and. . . trousers, as he reclines upon the sunny sands. . . assimilating the wisdom he has acquired on the 'Grand Tour.'. . . They are proud to realize that his motto has been to improve each shining hour...
Mechanical geniuses congratulated themselves that they and their kind have now provided society with coin-in-the-slot dispensaries of nuts chewing gum candy weighing stamps matches cigarets hair combs soap perfume shoe shines music electric shocks crude cinema horoscopes telephoning cooked food photographs drinking cups handkerchiefs napkins comfort subway rides soft drinks cosmetics name plates Other mechanical geniuses wondered if fortunes might not be made by furnishing society with coin-in-the-slot dispensaries...
...pass the electric chair. Prisoner Vanzetti was allowed to leave his cell and embrace his sister, Luigia whom he had not seen for 19 years. Prisoner Sacco saw his wife and 14-year-old son, Dante, to whom he later wrote a farewell letter telling him to comfort his mother, fight the rich, help the weak...
Roman Catholics in Mexico who are resisting the enforcement under President Calles of the antireligious Mexican Constitution (TIME March 1, 1926) were sharply reminded last week by U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg that they can expect no official aid or comfort from the U. S. Mr. Kellogg cited with annoyance and positively denied rumors that pressure favorable to the Holy See has been or is being exerted by the Coolidge Administration on that of Senor Calles...
Detective Thomas Tunney, brother of champion Fisticuffer Gene Tunney, brought some comfort to perturbed police when he apprehended one Charles Colze, who, while employed in the Natural History Museum of Manhattan as porter, had carried off eight fine bird-of-paradise plumes...