At Ease

At Ease"Increased leisure is one of the greatest civilizers of man!" roared Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Beaconsfield, before a dozing House of Commons. It is reported that 72 members of that august body thereupon loosed an ear-busting cheer, and took off for the comfort of home, hearth, port and parlor wench to down a deeper draught of this Great Civilizer: leisure.The soigné gentleman taking his ease in the armchair to our left has just slugged his way through tangled traffic after...