Word: painful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From first to last, Hardy was sad. He revealed a shadowy disillusion which grew in anger until it attained terrifying proportions. His characters were assailed by a curse that left "happiness but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain." There is an undefinable fear of life growing from the feeling that all is transitory and vain. Hardly lavished scrupulous care on his work, with the inevitable result that this gloom of life found artistic outlet in his realistic portrayal of man suffering the torments imposed by an ever-malignant Fate...
...committed suicide by jumping in the Tweed river, who left a note asking the Academy to show the last half dozen canvases he had covered (TIME, April 30). Reluctant, the Hanging Committee obeyed. The pictures were silly and terrible; their names had a dark and foolish clamor-My Pain Sheltering Beneath Your Hand, Here Am I. Passing them at last, to look at Sir William Orpen's bitterly melodramatic The Black Cap, or the clever work of 14-year-old Joan Manning Saunders, the smart happy people imitated Premier Baldwin's solemn headshake. "Dreadful . . ." they said, "a shocking...
...France had been occupied at a cost of $20,000. From the pier Captain Loewenstein & Party motored to the Hotel Ambassador, where they settled down in the comfortable third floor once occupied by Queen Marie of Rumania (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926, et seq.). Soon fastidious Captain Loewenstein read with pain certain ignorant, flapdoodling headlines. The Times: "LOEWENSTEIN . . . 'MYSTERY MAN'. . . POTENTATE . . . Here With Private Aviator [and] Two Cars." The Herald Tribune: "WORLD'S THIRD WEALTHIEST MAN HERE LIKE KING." The World: "LOEWENSTEIN, FREE LENDER OF $50,000,000 TO BELGIUM, HERE...
Poles under sentence to hang were worried. They know that a noose smartly drawn up (with knot close under one ear of the condemned) will bring instant, pain less death, by snapping the neck. Such have been the nooses of experienced Hangman Maciejewski, a onetime medical student. On the other hand, a loose and slovenly noose brings slow strangulation, lingering agony...
Before the. discovery of chloroform, hypnotism was used in operations to clear the patient's mind of fear, and in favorable subjects to induce a definite anaesthesia so that no pain was felt (TIME, Nov. 14). Almost any willing subject can be hypnotized, but the best patients are those already suffering from some mental or physical shock, or some habit which has already weakened their resistance. Hypnotism is a process of mental dissociation during which all activity is quiescent; no desire, no antagonism, no conflict. In this condition any suggestion registers powerfully and will be carried into action either...