Word: painfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom the medal had been cast was no happy man. Pain twitched his broken leg. Enemies were reviling him as, "That Coward Nobile! The first airship captain who was first to leave his ship!" (TIME, July...
Such lashing words must have cut deeper than pain; but suddenly their sting was soothed, as the great, soup-plate-like medal arrived and was placed in the trembly hands of General Umberto Nobile. Immediately his careworn features relaxed, and he seemed to bask at length in Peace...
Foot Wrenched. Pain sharpened the lines of His Holiness' usually serene and always amiable face last week. Descending from the papal automobile for his diurnal promenade in the Vatican gardens he wrenched his right foot. After a day in his private quarters he forced himself to give his usual audiences in the throne room. The pain continued. So public, but not private, audiences have been suspended for the present. Before his election to the Papacy he was a doughty mountain climber. Age, not immuration, is responsible for his present frailty. Next May His Holiness will be 72 years...
...coal and railroad tycoon, became aware, as he opened his mouth to munch a meal last week that three of his front teeth were missing. Supposing that he had left them somewhere about his house, he conducted a search, but while doing so, he became aware of sharp stomach pain. His suspicions were soon confirmed by an X-ray photograph. He had swallowed his three front teeth. Still calm, John Magee announced with a vacant grin, his intention of going to Newport...
...George W. Button Jr., of Manhattan and Darien, Conn., was master of ceremonies at a seaplane and motorboat regatta last week. He stood on the dock, signalled for the start, uttered a cry of sudden pain. A burning wad from the little brass cannon, used as a starting gun, had penetrated his left leg to a depth of one inch...