Word: contentedness
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Jim's Talk. The essence of Fergusonism is good, vigorous home-and-family blather, the kind of thing a contented Americano is supposed to shout in at the wife while he is shaving in the bathroom and she is trying to sneak in another snooze. Jim can talk to...
Of all the birds of heaven, none is more moral than the stork. Monogamy is his rule and practice. Year in and year out he cleaves to the original wife of his pouted bosom, rearing family after family with her in their first and only love-nest on some Dutchman...
Mother M. Alphonsa Lathrop, 75-year-old daughter of Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne, widow of Novelist George Parsons Lathrop (died 1898) had established this institution a few years after taking the veil (1899) to provide a place where destitute cancer victims could die in peace. No efforts to cure were made...
It was an advertisement, of course, for the Saturday Evening Post. Readers ascertained on closer scrutiny that Mr. Rogers was permitting this journal to publish a series of open epistles indited by him to Calvin Coolidge. He had never, he declared, talked to the President. Indeed, the first letter began...
Then began a ponderous, contented funeral march through the waves of the Atlantic behind the slowly tugged submarine S-51, back to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.