Word: comforter
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...think we are accursed by the spirits of the animals which have been killed for samisen materials, but in the endowment of our new statue, everything will be done to comfort their spirits in the way of prayers and incense...
...Make no mistake; it is not my purpose to belittle what we have done," continued Mr. Gibson. "Although our hopes may thus be disappointed, we can find comfort in the measure of agreement which has been reached in this commission. We can at least foresee a stabilization of armaments, the setting up of a machinery to receive and disseminate information on armaments, to educate public opinion and to prepare systematically for the work of future conferences, as successive milestones in the continuing process of disarmament...
...Andrews Millikan. Born in Oak Park, Ill. she married Dr. Millikan 28 years ago. When she has time, she goes to meetings of Pasadena women's clubs, is active in the Pasadena Drama League, Community Playhouse Association. But of first importance to her is her husband's comfort and privacy which she, too, guards vigilantly. Also at Pasadena will be Frau Einstein's friend Edna Stanton Michelson, wife of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, who is carrying on new light measurements. Mrs. Michelson is a daughter of the late Edgar Stanton, onetime U. S. Consul at St. Petersburg...
...defense of Colonel Lindbergh against the current press vogue of baiting him; his next, to debunking of the endurance flight stunt. His third column was a potpourri of impressions beginning, "Understand that sanitary conditions [at Newark Airport] are to be improved and that provision is being made for the comfort and convenience of air-voyagers." Last week came an impassioned if unoriginal protest against the newspaper practice of playing up airplane crashes while auto and rail accidents are treated casually...
...imaginaires just in time), raconteur of Paris and Rome, attending physician to the late Queen of Sweden, according to his own account took from the rich with his right hand, gave to the poor with his left, had enough left over to buy his villa in Capri, retire in comfort. There he lives alone, resents tourists, admires the view...