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Russia's millions faced a comfortless, bitter winter, but probably few would actually freeze or starve. The people rejoiced that the Red Armies were well supplied with food, clothing and fuel, that the 20° and 30° frosts only a few weeks off would freeze the thin blood of the German invaders more quickly than their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: As Winter Comes | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...these are cold and comfortless words of welcome, they are not meant to be. You will know that, surely, even before you go to your first class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO 1944 | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

...program will consist of the following pieces: "St. Paul's Suite," by Gustav Holst: "On the Plains, Fairy Trains," by Thomas Weelkes; "Five Love Songs," by Brahms; "Adoramus Te," by Palestrina; "Fire, Fire, My Heart," by Thomas Morley; and "I Will not Leave You Comfortless," by William Byrd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLST TO BE HONORED IN GLEE CLUB CONCERT | 4/27/1932 | See Source »

...program for the Plymouth concert tomorrow will include the following numbers! "Hallelujah Chorus," by Beethoven (to be sung by the combined choruses); "I Will not Leave You Comfortless," by Byrd; "Gently Johnny," English Folk song; "Choruses from the 'Mikado,", Sullivan; "Fire, Fire, My Heart," by Thomas Morley; and "To Thee Alone Be Praise," by Bach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB OPENS VARIED SCHEDULE OF 1932 CONCERTS | 3/2/1932 | See Source »

...American Notes (1842) Novelist Dickens noted the U. S. citizen's "dull, sullen persistence in press," coarse ridiculed usage," "that flayed comfortless America's custom, so "licentious very prevalent in [American] country towns of married persons living in hotels, having no fire side of their own." Of a party of Pennsylvania legislators who came to greet him, Dickens observed "Pretty nearly every man spat upon the carpet, as usual; and one blew his nose with his fingers-also on the carpet, which was a very neat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'Lethargic Worm | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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