Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame? United Mine Workers' President John L. Lewis and Northern operators had agreed on a new wage scale: $7 a day (up from $6). This caused neither of them any pain, for the union got a pay rise and it cost the Northern operators nothing, since under the Guffey Coal Act their increased labor cost would be passed along to the public as part of the Government-fixed price of coal...
TIME, March 24: the article on Japan, "Pain in the Nekku," errs in saying Chee is Japanese for tea. It is Cha. Always preceded by the honorific...
Native Son (produced by Orson Welles & John Houseman). Playwright Paul Green has helped Negro Novelist Richard Wright turn his best-selling Native Son into by all odds the strongest drama of the season. Broadway drama critics generally agreed that the book's pain-by-pain account of the Negro hero's tortured mind was more powerful than the play. But in ten scenes, framed within forbidding brick walls, played without intermission, the play says plenty...
...knife is knaifu, butter is bata, scrambled eggs are sakurambu eggu, beefsteak is beefu teki, chocolate is chokoretto, a mutton chop is maton choppu, soup is soppu, a salad is sarado, celery is serari, a tumbler is koppu (cup). To the moga (modern girl) it is all a pain in the nekku...
...especially in the love scenes. At every possible moment something went wrong. Shoulder-straps slipped, chairs threatened to break, and men stood on women's trains. There was some story to the play and a few romantic episodes, but the high-jinks on the stage destroyed any feeling except pain in the ribs. Don't go if you care for Molnar, but for bellylaughs the show can't be beaten...