Word: paines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye!" cried the Senate's portly Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney. "All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment, while the Senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Halsted L. Ritter, United States district judge for the southern district of Florida...
...Haile Selassie's comely kinky-haired 16-year-old daughter, Princess Sehai. "For seven days without a break," she wrote, "the enemy has been bombing the armies and people of my country, including women and children, with horrible gases. Hundreds of my countrymen are screaming and moaning with pain. Many are unrecognizable since the skin has been burned from their faces." Added Lord Cecil: The Italians have been proven guilty of bombing Red Cross units and have just destroyed the open city of Harar. These bombing 'outrages' might conceivably be due to mistakes, but the horrible...
Marshal Badoglio. squinting at his staff maps, knew that no matter how it might pain the House of Lords (see col. 3), a forthright poison gas campaign was the quickest and cheapest way of breaking opposition in a country where every herdsman has a rifle. The gassing began...
...campaign. Don't waste a shot. We are carrying all the ammunition we are going to have on this trip. This column must be like an electric live wire. Death to the touch! Truck drivers must learn to keep to the right of the road under pain of severe penalties. . . . ''Britain is a rich country, Italy is a poor country, but the people of poor countries have hard muscles. The only way to explain the action of the English is that they thought they had only to mass a war fleet in the Mediterranean and Premier Mussolini...
...former Prince, now the Count of Covadonga, and his wife, a buxom Cuban girl whom he had wooed when both were patients in a Swiss sanatorium, paused in Manhattan last autumn on their way to Cuba, that frail and amiable young man was secretly suffering with an acute pain in his right rump. In Havana the outcast couple rented a modest apartment, all they could afford on the small allowance they get from onetime King Alfonso XIII, who until this year considered his heir's marriage to a Cuban commoner a sin against the royal house of Bourbon. Soon...