Word: painful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment while the House of Representatives is exhibiting to the Senate of the United States articles of impeachment against Hon. George W. English, judge of the United States Court for the Eastern District of Illinois...
...There is not any method, beastly or exquisitely refined, that the police commissars, detectives, officers, and often judges themselves, have not employed in order to inflict the maximum physical pain without actually killing when information is desired. Beatings are administered until the victims faint and then they are revived with cold water and the process is repeated. Boiling water is poured into the ears. Their nails are pulled out. Burning hot eggs are applied under the arm pits, creating incurable wounds...
...easiest spot for the Copley to orient to its red asbestos curtain--nor is Lady Tonbridge's Charleston arena, nee home. The only thing it really adopts itself to is Mr. Mowbray's smile that was quite satisfying. Yet the best of smiles cannot cure the pain of the last lines. Those remain forever--shouted in the pseudo-alcoholic accents of Miss Ediss--"It's the will...
...these swell into a horrible, puffy, burning mass. Sometimes the disease works into the scalp and down the neck. The toxins are filtering through the lymphatic fluids. The patient is feverish and drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations, by the application of powdered starch, and by giving nourishing, easily digested foods. After a few days the beginning edges of the stain fade to a sickly yellow, which follows after the wave of red. The skin scales off in tiny flakes. The fever subsides. Later...
...abdominal condition which he did not mention two of his Chicago colleagues, Dr. N. Lionel Blitzsten and Dr. William A. Brams, have been dealing with. That is, the severe abdominal pain which fluctuates with attacks of migraine (megrim, hemicrania). These men, by brilliant studies, have shown that a certain syndrome of abdominal pain, where syphilitic spoors and exopthalmic goiter do not intrude, shows the symptoms of atypical migraine. The relationship between the brain and the abdominal viscera, in this disease, remains obscure. Four cases out of ten were operated upon, and the doctors found, as they expected, that there...