Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become sick. So he moved to Bethel, Me., in the Androscoggin Valley. There he opened an "inn," a kind of private sanitorium. To Dr. Gehring for cure have gone, in the past 32 years, lawyers, doctors, merchant chiefs-victims of overwork. At Dr. Gehring's they found comfort. He would set them to digging potatoes, or planting green peas, or swimming. Or he would let them sit quietly on his Androscoggin porch, looking into the blank distance until after many passive days the White Mountains took form in the patients' minds. They would begin to notice the roads...
Eugene G. Grace, President, Bethlehem Steel Corp.: "At the annual meeting of my company's stock-holders last week, Richard A. Jones, retired Manhattan businessman, refused to vote for the re-election of Director Alvin Untermyer, son of Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, declaring that Samuel Untermyer gave comfort to 'undesirable Reds' and was 'a man of Bolshevist leanings,' and that the son could not 'escape adopting the same policies.' I answered that Alvin Untermyer was a substantial stockholder, as was his father, that he had served on the board three years...
...they are honest and play the game, accumulate the wealth that seems to mean so much to them. But let them be held, through taxation, to contribute the modest share that will be needed for our plan of providing for the poorest classes, unable to protect themselves, the comfort and the health to which they are entitled...
...start the morning off with a strong does of economics is an action that requires true intellectual curiosity. Although some may think that the vagabond with his inclination towards evening concerts, art galleries, and the theatre is a soft individual unwilling to sacrifice his personal comfort for his intellectual advancement, these sceptics are nevertheless wrong, and in proof of this the vagabond has determined to learn about the Amalgamation of Banking in England since 1880. To find out about this he must turn his steps toward Harvard 1 at 9 o'clock to hear Professor Gay's talk on this...
...foolish to be too thrifty with her clothes budget, especially during her prettiest years. . . . Every girl I know who made a good marriage this year was the type who spends thought, cash and attention on clothes. The investments they made on gowns brought them more in money and material comfort-to say nothing of happiness-than the thrifty basement bargain-hunter could hope to lay aside in her whole life...