Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Causes for backache include occupations which keep the worker in strained positions for long periods, persistent standing and sitting in slouched attitudes, infections of the spine which eat away bone material, and acute infection in other parts of the body which produce pain in the hollow of the back...
Correction of bad posture, according to Ober, will do much to relieve a common backache, and proper attention to other diseases may even prevent a pain in the back. Chronic cases, however, must be treated with rest in bed; the patient is told to lie in a comfortable position and to avoid motions which would increase his pain...
...pleasure as a man might get out of being reminded how he cut up at the Country Club that night in 1924 ("I never did any such thing!" etc.). In Since Yesterday, which is Mr. Allen's record of the 1930s, readers will probably find a more genuine pain in the pleasures of recollection...
...high-binding comedy, the WNYC program was peerless. But to the Council's newly elected 1940 Democratic majority of 14, it was a pain in the caucus. One ancient City Father summed it up: if it took the aldermen over 100 years to make fools of themselves, the Council accomplished it in two. So last fortnight New York City's City Council voted, 13-to-7, to keep WNYC's and the public's nose out of the Council's business...
HELL ON TRIAL-René Belbenoif-Dutton ($3). No Dreyfus, but an exceedingly tenacious gadfly, the famed fugitive of Devil's Island (Dry Guillotine) here adds further smelly details about life in the French penal colony. He also deals with allegedly innocent fellow convicts. Typical is Chariot Pain. His crime was setting fire to a $5 army tent during a sun-struck moment in Africa. Legally amnestied by French law in 1925, he is still at Devil's Island, 32 years after his original sentence. But not all Belbenoit's fellow convicts were such martyrs. From their...