Word: painful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thousands, put to rout these courageous Southern gentlemen. When they had bound him, the chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when he was near to oblivion from pain, they applied the torch to the oil-soaked fagots and aroused his spirit to a terrible death in the fire. It is noted that a few urged that he be shot. They should be honored, for they were merciful...
...three quick stabs. The wife closes the hated book of her married life to go with her lover. Their meeting is all the happiness of life compassed in a moment of anticipation. Then in stunning suddenness comes the lover's death, and as a long-drawn, searing after-pain the wife's turning back to take up again the despised existence of thirty minutes before. True, splendidly characterized and theatrically dramatic in the best sense, "Half an Hour" sets one to thinking alone perhaps none to pleasant channels...
...disposition manifested by the instructors to establish and confirm a friendship between the student and themselves"; it attacked with keen satire compulsory church attendance on Sunday and the system of compulsory chapel. After its third issue the Collegian was suppressed by the Faculty, and the editors were forbidden under pain of expulsion to publish any paper whatsoever...
...being never played gives pain to none...
...athletics that can supply this want. If the college man's play looks to an outsider like the most earnest and whole-hearted thing that he ever does, it is because this play is at present his best substitute for "experience," and for that kind of "reality" which pain and hard training rub in. I take the development of athletics as a sign that the instincts of American college students are sound; that they have a healthy appetite for exertion, teamwork, common service, pain and danger. But nobody pretends that the present situation in athletics is right, for the student...