Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh last week the world's first aluminum street car, half as heavy as steel, permitting high speed with comfort, made its first run, revived lagging public interest in trolley transportation...
...from the Tower of London marched through the cellars of Parliament. Carrying halberds and horn lanterns they poked in crannies, peered in corners. The purpose of this search was to look for Guy Fawkes, a gentleman who, one Nov. 4, tried to blow up Parliament, but who, to the comfort of present-day "Beefeaters," has been dead since...
...does not need it badly. A student who comes here and has his way paid by thrifty parents to the extent that he need not work at all outside of school is able to make the Dean's List and live in the highest of bourgeois comfort. But what of the man who must earn his way without the aid from home? He carries one or sometimes two jobs on the side, rushes from his work to his books, and from his books to his exams. He never has an opportunity to allow his studies to ripen in his mind...
...Eastman Laboratories: 1) Rose Dorce ("sensuousness and passion . . . amorous, romantic and exotic"); 2) Peachblow (''feminine beauty . . . the glow of life"); 3) Afterglow ("dawn and sunset scenes, interiors of luxury"); 4) Firelight ("intimate home relationships, mild affection"), 5) Candleflame ("mild mood reactions . . . feelings of coziness, comfort . . . peace and plenty without opulence"); 6) Sunshine ("mildly stimulating"); 7) Verdante ("youth, freshness, unsophistication, innocence . . . only slightly warm, but definitely not cold"); 8) Aquagreen ("cool lakes in the northwoods"); 9) Turquoise ("peace, tranquility . . . calm tropical seas'"); 10) Azure ("sedate, reserved . . . slightly gloomy"); 11) Nocturne ("night shadows, despair, underworld"); 12) Purplehaze ("pronounced cooling...
...Comfort to St. Paul's men was their knowledge that in 1921 Dr. Drury had been offered the rectorship of Trinity Church, Manhattan. No man before him had ever refused that election. But Dr. Drury did not hesitate to refuse it. At that time he explained that he would not, could not, leave his boys. Three-quarters of a century old, possessed of a rare tradition in its first headmaster, the late, great Dr. Henry Augustus Coit, St. Paul's is excelled by no U. S. school, emulated by many, equalled by only two or three. Although...