Word: paines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indignant, the Wild West promoter was summoned to West London Police Court on the charge that in his rodeo he had "permitted an animal to be terrified, to wit. a steer." The steer had crashed into an exit gate of the rodeo arena, rebounded and dashed off bellowing with pain, to the alarm of British spectators who would scarcely have noticed dogs permitted to "terrify" a fox. "Things like that don't hurt a tough steer," snorted Tex Austin. "So far our rodeo has had only four real accidents- all of them to cowboys. The record is four broken...
...found her apparently seriously injured. A Christian Scientist, she declined medical attention summoned, instead, a paid healer to pray over her and read from Mary Bakei Eddy's Science & Health. Mrs. Kirk made what looked like a complete recovery but later she said she suffered from headaches, a pain in the nose and tremors of the left hand. She had made good money as a cake-baker and the tremors kept her from mixing batter with her oldtime deftness. Mrs. Kirk thereupon sued George Cisler for $10,000 damages...
...grave. She was no Messiah and no God, just a woman of bones, flesh and blood, and yet this plaintiff, who will die as you and I, with hundreds of thousands of others, has seen fit to put aside real science ... to adopt the belief that pain and illness are things of the imagination and not of reality...
...denied the ministrations of a medical practitioner, through a stubborn belief in the efficiency of prayer by a paid healer, and that her recovery was retarded thereby, you would be unfair to your oath if you charged Cisler with these injuries. If she claimed that there is no pain and that the way of relief is through the teachings of Mrs. Eddy you cannot make Cisler...
...Kondylis strutted into the hall and Zing!-a chair hurtled clear across the Chamber at Alexander Papanastasiou, leader of the Opposition. M. Papanastasiou, an artful dodger, was not hurt until he threw the chair back at the Government with such violence that he dislocated his right shoulder. Grimacing with pain, he left the Chamber and announced that the entire Opposition would stay out on a protest strike against General Kondylis' ambition to buy 600 million drachmas worth of munitions at a time when Greece faces no threat...