Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squad's loquacious trainer, Roland ("Beaver") Bevan, is good at both. He is as well stocked with football lore as Doc Blanchard's father was, and he has enough pain-curing equipment to stock a hospital for hypochondriacs (which Cadets are not). Some of Beaver's newer gadgets: an infra-red lamp for bruises and sprains, an ultraviolet lamp for infections, a paraffin oil bath to provide extra heat for sprains, a short-wave diathermy machine for deep-penetration heat, frigidaire ice packs for inflammations...
When fed the proteins every two hours, some of the 47 Co patients were free of pain in two days, and after three weeks some ulcers no longer showed up on X-ray films. Many of the patients gained weight...
School of the Air chops up the week with five subjects. Mondays feature U.S. history (The Genius of Franklin, Riding the Range, The Big Canal); Tuesday shows are music (sample for Halloween: Danse Macabre, Grieg's March of the Dwarfs); Wednesdays are science (Conquering Pain, Friendly Alloys, Story of Radar); Thursdays, current events (War Criminals, The Hero's Return) ; Fridays, literature (The Pickwick Papers, The Devil and Daniel Webster.) The regular talent is top-drawer: famed Explorer Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews narrates the history show; Bernard Herrmann and the Columbia Concert Orchestra plays the Tuesday music lessons...
...clothes but without his stutter, caps the funniest of the nonsensical interludes. When the young people (Ginny Simms and Robert Paige) settle themselves on a park bench for what promises to be a familiar lovers' scene, up pops Frisco from behind the bench with an expression of terrible pain on his face. He proceeds to kid the cooing with a disrespect for the romantic routine that should make this scene worth the price of admission to moviegoers who are weary of screen mush...
...favorite technique was to plot the meter, write down the rhyming words at the end of each line, last of all fill in the lines behind them. In one of his early poems "there was a couplet I liked" : Love's exultant roundelay Issues in a wail of pain...