Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flavour and heighton the effect of the final bitter, climax. The story ends: "Choster turned then and run down the brick walk and when he reached the road he continued to run borno along by the force of the wind faster and faster. His face was twisted with pain and his hands pressed together in agony. 'I'm very amusing', the shouted over and over, I'm essentially a comic character!' but his words were lost in the larger sound of the worlds were lost in the larger sound of the world's fury...
...Garbo in Stockholm. Three years ago he firmly refused to marry fat Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. But for Erika he could think of nothing but marriage. Several months ago he took his little blonde back to Stockholm to get the King's permission. With a snort of pain Gustaf packed up and went down to the Riviera to play tennis, knowing well that Swedish law forbids a prince to marry in Sweden without his permission. But Sigvard was set on deserting the dwindling ranks of the Swedish royalty. Last week he took Erika to Britain where Swedish...
Walküre's second act might have ended disastrously if it had not been for the courage of Contralto Karin Branzell. She was Fricka, the angry goddess who has a long scene with the erring Wotan. Last week she had gallstones. Pain, not expert acting, made her sing most of her music with clenched fists. Finally she had to sit down on a stage rock but she finished her scene, majestically left the stage, fainted...
...Coaches who took themselves too seriously. They were a pain in the neck to everyone...
Exclaiming "the pain is torturing, I can hardly stand it," Pennsylvania's long lean Governor Gifford Pinchot flew to Manhattan by airplane to be treated...