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Word: comfortingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Mary has little. A Wyoming interlude that might have been written by Elinor Glyn in collaboration with Harold Bell Wright and a Campfire Girl, eliminates Millar?and Mary's chastity. When she finally marries André, whose constancy does not soar above the average for Latins, she discovers the comfort resident in observing the adage about glass houses and stone-flinging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: House Papers | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...joined. They had traveled across the continent, all the way from Moiese, Mont. (Flathead Indian Reservation), in 70 hours, riding in specially constructed, electrically lighted express cars. Their total carfare amounted to $14,000. Everyone of the bulls had been dehorned before being shown to his stall, for the comfort of his fellow passengers and the conductors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Industry | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...governs an agricultural nation of industrial resources, inhabited by an uneducated and half-breed population. To its credit it has international recognition and several years of warless existence. Its task is to solve severe problems dealing with stability, national unity, racial peace, popular education and, not loast, agrarian comfort and natural resources...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POTENTIAL MEXICO | 1/12/1926 | See Source »

...opening there was outcry from certain professional observers that this play and its production were not worthy of the Theatre Guild. Probably this is true. They have done too many truly great things in the past to mark time as they do here. Yet there is one great comfort. When the Theatre Guild slows up and does a relatively inexpert production, the results are still several leagues ahead of so many of the others managers' best. You will not dislike Merchants of Glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 28, 1925 | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...doomed to die of cancer and I would like to know what comfort there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Oracle | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

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