Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CURE OF SOULS?May Sinclair?Macmillan ($2.50). The Reverend Canon Clement Purcell Chamberlain cared really for nothing but the easy comfort of his body and the comfortable ease of his soul. He shrank before the physical vigorousness of Cartwright, his junior curate, who was always suggesting something to do, such as founding a Men's Club or starting a Sunday afternoon service for men alone. He shrank from Jackman also, who came to him with the tortures of his soul. Finally he found a way out. He rid himself of an unpleasant sister by inviting her down when Queningford...
...unfortunate that the peculiarities of the clock have been revealed and the cherished belief that it gained one minute a week regularly thus destroyed. Belated students hastening to nine o'clocks will derive small comfort if the clock indicates five minutes past--when it may possibly mean ten minutes past. And if perchance, its solemn gong should announce the arrival of ten o'clock at an unseemly, early hour, such as half-past nine, there will be wise and knowing shaking of heads instead of a healthy, jubilant rush for the doors. Ignorance has always been bliss for those...
...this aerial activity has disheartened Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the apostle of the "friendly Arctic." Polar exploration is not what it used to be, he laments, and he is going to quit. Modern inventions, safety and comfort have lessened the joy of the venturesome explorer and it is now a humdrum sort of job. Stefansson believes the Shenandoah will attain her goal without mishap...
...knowing just what to do, the girl betakes herself abroad to her mother. The maneuver proves to be illadvised. Her mother is in no sense qualified to give moral aid and comfort. She is magnificently free from morality. While Joyce was still a child, the mother had run away from her husband; and she has not neglected to keep his place continually, if varyingly, filled by a succession of masculine intimacies. Joyce, inexplicably stimulated, returns to fight the world-particularly that part of it comprising the supposed friends who had led her down the steep path to indiscretion...
...this move these two crusading spirits have brought comfort to those respectable souls who encountered most shocking statements in a chance perusal of the Smart Set. Now they need fear no such attacks upon their righteousness for the gadflies are all safely caged in one magazine...