Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe what she saw. She touched the dead face tenderly, and exclaimed at its coldness. She began to cry, then, and to talk of how beautiful the face had been. When she stood up, I put my arm around her, and with the little Polish I know, tried to comfort...
...audience of Polish priests and nuns, the Pope walked to the throne in the Pontifical Palace of Castel Gandolfo, to offer words of consolation to "his children of Catholic Poland" in this "tragic hour of your national life." Pale, and deeply moved, he spoke of his duty to give comfort, wept as he went on: "Now there are already thousands, hundreds of thousands, of poor human beings who suffer ... by this war from which all our efforts ... so obstinately, so ardently but, alas, so vainly fought to preserve Europe and the world. Before our eyes now passes a vision...
...Brother David's in Nebraska, three times as much as Brother John's in Kentucky. At least 800,000 have no schools at all. >The teaching profession, says Smith College's retired President William Allan Neilson, consists largely of "timid and unimaginative persons to whom moderate comfort, a moderate competence, moderate security are the reward for a moderate amount of moderately conscientious drudgery...
...That the churches should give such spiritual help and comfort to the victims of war's tragedies as they alone can give...
...Lazarist,* Father Täpper ran a hospice at Tabgha, in which a handful of monks and nuns gave visitors simple food, simple comfort. His friends called the jovial, pipe-smoking father the "King of Galilee." The Arabs who worked for him and netted fish on his shores made him their sheik...