Word: paines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sporting sons, Harold Stirling and William Kissam II, were in the southern U. S., but her daughter Consuelo, one-time pawn of her most amazing social gambit, was there. Outside in the Rue Monsieur the dove-colored Paris dawn was brightening. The old lady, appearing to suffer no pain, lay comatose. But on her square, wide-mouthed face there was a look of concentration, as though, desperately pressed for time, she must reconsider, revalue the countless acts and decisions of her extraordinary lifetime. Suddenly, at 6:50 a. m., her features relaxed...
Returning a few minutes later, Mrs. Coolidge went upstairs to summon him for luncheon. In his dressing room she found him lying on the floor on his back in his shirtsleeves. To him Death had come 15 minutes before, swiftly, easily, without pain. For "cause" the official death certificate said: "coronary thrombosis...
...through the campaign there has seemed to be a controlling spirit of courtesy in all the newspapers of the country, insofar as I could see them, to refrain from any reference to Governor Roosevelt's lameness, and the word which you have used-"hobbled"-will give pain to Governor Roosevelt and all his friends. I cannot help feeling sorry to read a news statement in this form...
...methylene blue into one of Cuthbert Reiveley's veins. In five minutes the moribund young man revived. Ten minutes later he wrote down, at Dr. Millzner's suggestion, his experiences: "There wasn't any sensation other than a numbness starting at the extremities and gradually, without pain, spreading. The sensation was really quite pleasant-no pain and no muscular rigidity in going under." After he received the methylene blue injection "there was just a sensation of floating...
...though a hammer were pounding on the skull, or as though a drill were grinding into the bone. Or an iron hoop seems to tighten around the head. Or the bones of the skull seem about to burst apart like the staves of an overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight vex the victim...