Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers are trained and disciplined, Mr. Goods made an especial appeal for cooperation between the public and the police. "The criminal or crook never question the law " said Mr. Goode, "but the average citizen quite often resents the enforcement of necessary police regulation which interfere with his personal comfort or convenience...
Without wishing to add to the trials and tribulations of the popular Prince too popular, in fact, for his-own comfort--it might be pointed out that the American press owes to its public the duty of adding its entreaties to those of the English papers. The Prince of Wales has recently been performing a most necessary service in standardizing men's fashions in America, and his taste has on the whole been excellent. When it is remembered that one of his not remote ancestors once appeared with his trousers creased down the sides, the Prince's forbearance and conservatism...
...tonight by Captain Gordon and his men aroused the handful of Crimson supporters to a high pitch of enthusiasm and evoked the praise of the most dyed-in-the-wool Eli sympathizers. It was distinctly a defeat with honor; but a defeat, even with honor, is scant comfort to the players who had victory so nearly within their grasp...
...legerdemain with the words 'scholarship', 'faith', and 'creeds', with a result that they finish with the general impression that everything is all right--let scholars study; let believers believe, but don't have any controversy about anything. Unity is a good thing, but truth is a better thing. Comfort is a good thing, but truth is a better thing, Clergymen must get over the idea that their main relation to individuals is to make them feel comfortable religiously. That is what the conservative religious church member particularly wishes to retain. it is perhaps the first thing he should give...
...does it? As a matter of fact it really does not. And what is more there is probably scarcely an undergraduate who would aspire to membership--except perhaps the Freshmen and transfer students who still suffer illusions. And for their information and comfort it might perhaps be safe to hazard a guess at what will transpire tomorrow...