Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were friends, and their friends. Chekhov bought a dilapidated country house outside the city, to get away from visitors, soon found his household was as crowded as ever. It was a relief to get away occasionally for a quiet stroll in a graveyard. Chattering women gave him a special pain. "What a lot of idiots there are among ladies!" he exclaimed. "People have got so used to it that they no longer notice it." He liked such misogynisms as: "If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry." Chekhov finally married, but not till he was 41, three years before...
...Mickey Mouse called "On Ice." On the other hand, two types of travelogues--both of tropical savor--are offered for the moviegoer. Rather mediocre is "Damascus and Jerusalem," which covers ancient ground in very old fashion. By now the public should be filled to the point where it suffers pain with travelogues which persist in presenting new lands from the same outlook. Although this does not commit the mistake of Fitpatrick productions, which Mr. Fitzpatrick always concludes with a mournful "We take a reluctant leave of the fair city of So and So," it clearly bares the need for something...
...little helpless about helping them as she wanted to. She took care of the house, did the marketing, while her mother worked in a laundry. Her young brother Jani dived into the strange world of French school life, compensating with his intellectual triumphs for the bewilderments and pain of his social failures. The youngest girl, Klari-soon so assimilated she was called Claire-was most deeply influenced by the family transplanting, becoming vigilant and wary as a child, defiant and aloof as an adolescent, practical and forthright with a surprising insight into people as she grew...
...Kung to say of her husband in an official broadcast by the Acting Premier last week, "While we are all anxious that Generalissimo Chiang may be rescued . . . our attitude is that the personal safety of one man should not be allowed to interfere. . . . It gives one a pain in the heart that this extraordinary development should have taken place in Sian...
...convinced that where I failed no one could have succeeded," concluded the Prime Minister. "Let no word be spoken that causes pain to any soul and let us not forget today the revered, beloved figure of Queen Mary." The speech also contained that little throb of penitence which has for years been the trademark of every "crisis speech" by Stanley Baldwin. A democratic Prime Minister must undertake no great matter without informing at least three or four principal members of the British Cabinet. Of his approach to Edward VIII on this gravest issue, the Prime Minister told the House...