Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found and still cherish, that is why my spirit burns to see the old Waldorf chairs no longer in their wonted place. For many years the Waldorf was to be seen crowded nightly, now what? An occasional scattered group, stragglers, never the old solid masses that indicated the comfort and conviviality to be found there when the side arm chairs invited sprawling ease and lured by comfort the student from his studies...
...famous Pekawook Cafe at Columbia, these are examples of places long remembered and almost traditional in the life of universities. Harvard was on the road to having one of its own in the Waldorf. The new antiseptic tables have robbed the place of any individuality (not to say comfort) the place ever had. Must we be so super-sanitary? With the old individual chairs back the Waldorf would resume its former glory. All that is needed is a little publicity and the change would be effected. WILLIAM MORTON...
...year-round hotels are in operation and of the strictly season-hotels, 75% of them had slight damages, all of which will be repaired within 60 days. So that by December 1, Miami will be able to take care of a large number of winter visitors with her usual comfort and convenience. The stores are open, the gas supply is normal, there is plenty of pure fresh water and electric lights shine at night. Normal shipping activities have been resumed...
...debt as security until they earn enough to pay off the credits extended them. Though in many cases the geisha die before they are debt free, six years is the approximate period of service after which the geisha are able to retire wth sufficient savings to live in modest comfort...
...must be admitted, come here from the untaught hinterlands where such a composition as the letter in this column is more a custom than a grand mistake. Not one effort is made, except for those futile flairs of comradle which the Union attempts, to make them appreciate the comfort which is associated with a true Harvard existence, that comfort bred of being with active minds in social intercourse of that sort so much the heritage of the college proper...