Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Straddling mountains is an exhilarating pleasure to King Albert (see cut). Straddling the "language issue" is an excruciating, chronic pain to Belgium's successive prime ministers...
...life went on for a group of girls just behind the Front, War Nurse convinces, yet it is only superficially, and therefore at times offensively, gruesome. Just one moment like that in All Quiet on the Western Front, when the soldier whose leg has been amputated complains of a pain in his toe, would have justified much of inexperienced Director Edgar Selwyn's blood, sentimentality and synthetic thunder. Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Robert Ames and June Walker are in it. Best shot: the officers' party. Silliest shot: the advent of Anita Page's baby...
...House of Representatives, Congressman Nicholas Longworth of the First (Cincinnati) Ohio District. A political realist with an uncommon sense of election drifts, he made the above remarks in an interview to newshawks in Washington. His statement made other G. O. P. leaders wriggle and squirm with acute pain. But a few hours later Speaker Longworth atoned for his frankness, proved himself still the orthodox partisan when he broadcast a campaign speech in which he flayed Democrats and their tariff tactics as responsible for the Depression...
...Catholic shall become or remain a member of the National Socialist (Fascist) Party of Adolf Hitler upon pain of being denied Holy Communion...
...ribbons; it is scorched and smells of burning. . . . Thus they lie, rows of them, on hay, on mattresses-ravaged entrails, burst bladders, shattered lungs, lacerated throats, iron-studded skulls-the irretrievable ones. . . . Let it not be thought that these are just isolated horrors, sensational but only occasional instances of pain and suffering, and not essentially significant. These examples represent but a shabby trickle. Taken in its entirety all was far worse. . . . What is here told is but a single page of the whole story...