Word: painful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bless the intuition which led us to intervention in the War. We bless the blood generously shed by the 700 battalions of fallen. We bless our scars, the pain of which is now eased by a great radiant hope...
Septic Sore Throat. In ten days, an epidemic of septic sore throat has killed 26 people in Lee, Mass. Of the remaining 4,000 population, more than 400 lay in fevered agony, last week, unable to swallow; their glands hard and swollen; their heads hammering with constant pain. Doctors, nurses, supplies were rushed...
Therefore Mr. Herrick must have received with pain, last week, a thoroughgoing flaying administered by M. Andre Geraud, famed as "Pertinax," redoubtable Foreign Editor of L'Echo de Paris. Seizing upon a rumor that the Ambassador was about to resign, "Pertinax" apostrophized...
...Lorie had quite rightly been permitted to dance only once, and that once only in sport. "Lorie's grief was incurable and without rights and should have hidden itself. But as it was a grief without understanding, it was also a grief without inhibition, and this produced a great pain . . . the paternal heart of the professor was lacerated by this misery, by the humiliating terrors of this passion, without rights and without cure." But the "night of a child establishes so broad and deep an abyss between one day and the next" that in the morning Lorie's grief...
Throughout the crisis, Dr. Stresemann displayed great courage despite extreme pain, cracked occasional jokes with his physicians...