Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small comfort to be told that the intensity of competition demands that these consultations with the muse, or fury, of football be held in solitude. And insult is added to injury by the honeyed information that on the Thursday before the Yale game the team will run through signals before the public eye. It is but a hollow victory when one's champion upon the field of battle loses all human interest behind a mask of secret practice...
Manhattan's Grand Central Palace was filled, last week, with the Architectural and Allied Arts Exposition, a giant fashion show displaying (April 15-27) the latest modes in which man adorns the earth for his comfort and amusement. Dominant was the 44th exhibition of the Architectural League of New York. But since architecture is more than, ever a synthesis of many elements - pure design, clients' specifications, construction engineering, interior decorating, landscape architecture, plumbing - much of the space was devoted to the Allied Arts. The architectural gamut ran through garages, houses, churches, public buildings, reached a skyward climax...
...Gannett, are ruling powers. Mr. Wyman is Water Power. Mr. Gannett, a cousin of Chain-Publisher Frank Gannett of Rochester, Syracuse, Brooklyn, Hartford, Albany, Utica, Elmira, Newburgh-Beacon (N. Y.), Plainfield (N. J.), Ithaca, Olean (N.Y.), Ogdensburg (N. Y.), is Power of the Press. His monthly Comfort reaches 1,226,330 homes. His dailies in Portland (the Press-Herald and Express} and Waterville (the Sentinel} dominate. Working quietly as always, Mr. Insull intrenched himself early and deep. But his operations eventually awakened such utility companies as the Boston Edison to look around and consolidate, to form...
...Comfort. Even the open sport planes had their comforts-a pad for back of the pilot's head and one in front, if he jounces forward. Cabins had wicker or upholstered chairs or seats, ash trays, drinking cups. Large and small transports had washstands, toilets and kitchens. But informality is still essential for most air travel...
Somehow one has always sought comfort in the hope that whatever else may happen in a changing world the Boston Evening Transcript would stand put. Never seriously indicted as a "scare" sheet the old comforter of Back Bay has staked its little all upon the satisfactory handling of the expected. Its news material emerges from the editorial offices with the tough parts removed and furnishes its established clientel a not too stimulating contact with a busy world of affairs...