Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When reading the article "The Crisis" in your last issue, I had the sensation of a sharp, lightning pain, as from the sudden touching of a sore tooth, for which we had swallowed pills instead of facing the dentist...
Early one spring morning, a husky young surgeon ran up 20 steps to the door of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Suddenly he felt a stabbing pain in his chest; he broke out in a cold sweat, gasped for breath. His colleagues rushed him off to bed. A few days after this heart attack they found that a blood clot had formed in one of the chambers of his heart...
Several days after, while still very sick, the young doctor felt an "agonizing pain" in his legs; they turned cold and blue. The clot had been dislodged from his heart, had traveled along the aorta (main heart artery) till it became stuck at the point where the artery branched in two, low in his back, just above his legs. Calling his nurse, the doctor told her he was doomed, reminded her of a patient who had the same kind of embolism, lost his legs and died...
...eight months in his two and a half years of life, little Victor Christopher Ramberg had screamed day & night in excruciating agony. His cancered eyes poured a million devils of pain into his small head, taking away his sight. Doctors said he could not live more than six months longer...
...vanished landmarks; or the Duke's as he entered the White House where "Silent Cal" Coolidge once volubly tried to relieve his shyness; or whether he remembered the Library of Congress, where once, with an injured arm, he shook hands for hours with thousands of people until, the pain becoming unbearable, he quietly excused himself, went behind a screen and fainted. Then he had been the coming King-Emperor, toasted, courted, toadied to as no other man has been in the 20th Century; now he was a lonely exile, Governor of The Bahamas, flyspeck-islands important chiefly to another...