Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alcohol, Dr. Fabricant declared, has a number of effects that are useful in fighting a cold: it speeds the circulation, provides warmth and comfort, induces drowsiness, and encourages the patient to take to his bed. And bed rest "diminishes the severity of the common cold, limits its spread to others, and reduces the frequency of complications." But while Dr. Fabricant recommended the odd shot, he was not prepared to prescribe repeated doses: "Some people don't know when to stop...
...Arkansas was Ed Stone's grandfather, taciturn Stephen K. Stone, who managed to amass such a fortune in real estate and merchandise that he was known as "the Richest Man in Washington County." His sons, including Ed's father, Benjamin Hicks Stone, were raised in Southern comfort, so well off none of them troubled to work very hard...
...real drop of the middle-priced car has been brought about by Detroit itself. Until the 19403, the low-priced three-Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth -manufactured cheap, compact cars meant chiefly for transportation. As demand grew for wider and longer cars with more room and comfort, Detroit changed the once small cars into big ones. From 1938 to date, Chevrolet has grown two feet overall; Ford has grown four feet since 1928. Both are now bigger than the Pontiac, Packard or Oldsmobile of ten years...
...difference in quality and comfort between low-priced and high-priced cars narrowed. Cheaper cars picked up more horsepower (Chevrolet offers 280 h.p. today, about the same as the 1955 Cadillac). Once major mechanical improvements were the exclusive property of more expensive autos, e.g., Oldsmobile's automatic shift; now lower-priced models have all of them. Among the lower-priced cars, it is the highest-priced models that are doing best. Ford sales are down, but its Thunderbird and Fairlane are selling best-to many people who a few years ago would have bought a middle-priced car. Sales...
Simplicity Plus Richness. Renewed interest in Art Nouveau has also caught up the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, well-to-do son of the founder of Manhattan's Tiffany & Co., who started out as an artist, switched, along with Artist John La Farge, to experiments with hand-blown glass, and became the most fashionable decorator of his day. Tiffany held that "simplicity is the foundation of all really effective decoration" and he proved that simplicity need not rule out richness and beauty...