Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...service as troop transports during the war and had only partly recovered. So were Holland-American's "Volendam" and "Tabinta." The United States Lines ran three little war-design ex-transports with the ominous names of "Marino Tiger," "Flasher," and "Shark." None of the boats were exactly models of comfort--the Cunard ships, which had had a capacity of 500 in their luxury days, were carrying up to 1400 this summer. And there were ugly rumors that the reason half the ships sailed from Quebec was that their fire equipment could not pass the New York harbor requirements. But students...
Last week the State Department made an abject apology: "Miss Comfort was detained as the result of a most regrettable and unfortunate mistake. There is no information in the files of the immigration service which would render her inadmissible should she apply for entry into the United States in the future...
...notebook): a manual for producers with pooled know-how on the most economical production techniques; standardized financing and accounting; an industry clinic in promotion and advertising; training courses in behavior for box office personnel, ushers, concessionaires and house managers; a credo pledging the theater to fair dealing, courtesy, comfort, efficient operation-with enforcement of ethical practices by the Better Business Bureau. Bernays would also harness women's clubs, youth groups, universities, cultural leaders, etc. into a vast public relations campaign for the theater...
...thing she was in for: raising money (Wellesley was after $7½ million, Barnard $5,000,000, Smith $7,000,000). She would find little comfort in the fact that all her fund-raisers are women. What U.S. women need, former President Horton had found, is a "psychological catching-up" about money. "They are too used to writing out household checks-for $10 or $20. The trouble is that you can't run a college on household checks...
Ellen never comes to his call, and the rest of the castle staff, all of whom are English except Paddy, the silent peacock-keeper, are mostly too preoccupied to comfort the dying man. For World War II has started and these English men & women are nervous exiles in a neutral but silently hostile land, half relieved, half ashamed when they think of what they are escaping...