Word: discomforts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clean clear water has replaced the coffee-colored liquid that formerly filled the Big Tree swimming pool. The more regular but less particular patrons of the pool find discomfort in this new cleanliness, because on account of it their former seclusion has been intruded upon by hosts of clean water lovers. So many have found pleasure in the new luxury that the hours have been lengthened and beginning Monday the Big Tree pool will be open from 10.30 o'clock until 6 o'clock in the afternoon. At present the pool opens at 1.30 o'clock every afternoon. The water...
Premier Poincaré, who is also Foreign Minister, sent police to view the offending scene, which was later suppressed to the great comfort of the British Ambassador but to the equally great discomfort of the Parisians who had found the scene extremely droll...
...obvious discomfort of Edward, but to the delight of all others, Mr. Harvey drew a comparison between the Prince who fought in France clad in black armor and the Prince who fought there in khaki; from that he proceeded to eulogize him as " the White Prince...
...accomplishing the same ends. A partial state of coma is induced in the patient by deep and rapid breathing; dizziness follows, and it is held that almost any part of the body may then be subjected to treatment that would ordinarily cause pain, without the slightest sensation of discomfort, and without any harmful after-effects...
...town that God forgot!" But it is less trouble to go on sneezing and gargling than to go to the doctor's office at the outset. There the service costs nothing and a little properly directed attention can put an end to an embryo cold which is a personal discomfort and may be a public nuisance. With the storm-signals out on every side for an epidemic of grippe this precaution is more than an advantage; it is a duty...