Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unstable. He will get no comfort from Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps, who has repeatedly said that he will not devalue. Cripps stands on the flat statement; he will not argue. One of his associates explained last week: "It's the unmentionable subject-like a lady's reputation." One man who recently talked devaluation with Cripps adds: "He would resign rather than devalue-and he is not in a resigning mood...
...upon payment of ?10 for gentlemen, ?7 for ladies. Holders of mere owners' cards (like Rita and Aly Khan and Beautician Elizabeth Arden Graham) sat in boxes overlooking the Royal Enclosure-but that was a long way from being inside it. These underprivileged souls had some crumbs of comfort. Ladies in the Royal Enclosure may not smoke cigarettes and are forbidden to lean across the fence to place bets with bookies. Last week the ladies in the Royal Enclosure strictly observed the no-smoking rule, although a few were seen betting...
...fact that the writer can enjoy all the excitement of athletics, avoiding at the same time all of the unpleasantness (i.e. the physical effort). This is a very tempting set-up, especially on cold November afternoons, when, clip-board in hand, the writer ascends to the relative warmth and comfort of the Soldier's Field press-box, whence he can gaze down in fine scorn on players and spectators alike...
...brass who would require honorific outside offices. There was a similar diplomatic reason for the Secretariat's 4,000 separate air-conditioning units. "Such a luxurious standard," said the FORUM, "is enforced on U.N. by the contiguity of Icelanders and Abyssinians . . . each with his own idea of thermal comfort...
...over to the Post. A graduate of Columbia, an ex-G.I. and the father of two, Newsman Wechsler has written three books (including a biography of John L. Lewis). His credo for the Post: "It was said long ago that the function of a newspaper is to 'comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.' Too many newspapers have forgotten the words . . . We propose to remember...