Word: comfort
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hoboken, N.J. one day last month, honey-haired Ruth Comfort, a University of Toronto student, was all set to walk down the gangplank of the Volendam and take the train home. Then a U.S. immigration officer began to question...
...Comfort from Moscow. One of the Northwest's Nationalist strong men had been General Fu Tso-yi, who was called from the Suiyuan back country to defend North China. Last February, outnumbered and outmaneuvered, Fu surrendered Peiping and his own allegiance to the Communists. Last week his new masters sent him back to Suiyuan to win over a former subordinate, Nationalist Governor Tung Chi-wu, still holding out in Paotow...
...armed with 500,000 silver dollars and 10,000 40-ft. bolts of cloth for winter uniforms. "I'll console and comfort my old troops," said Fu. They needed comfort, for they had not been paid in the past six months and their summer uniforms would be' scant protection in the severe winter ahead...
Statisticians poring over the reports found some cold comfort. This year's total, whatever it might be, could not be compared directly with the 1916 total of 30,000 cases, because the U.S. population has increased by about half in the meantime. Also, because so many milder cases are now properly diagnosed and reported, the proportion of crippling and fatal cases is far less. (The death rate among youngsters under 15 is now one-fifteenth the rate of the 1916 mortality...
...modest for Hollywood bigwigs (a ten-room house without swimming pool or tennis court), he moans that he can save little of it after agents' fees and taxes. Though tied to his handsomely austere wage by an optionless long-term contract that runs through 1951, Wald gets some comfort from recognition. He flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does not object to pressagents trumpeting his praises. Recently, when Jack Warner ordered a publicity blackout on Wald, ostensibly to cut down demands on his prize producer's valuable time, Wald...