Word: painfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warm bath and a little food on retiring and to go to bed earlier. . . . The less the patient sleeps one night, the less he is able to sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle is a sedative drug. . . . Morphine is a good pain reliever, but a poor sleep maker. . . . The newer synthetics [drugs] have no relation to morphine; they have none of that kick that makes the taker wish to repeat the experience. . . ."?Walter C. Alvarez of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn...
Mark's lizard-like son, Andred, steals upon them; then Mark himself. After a baleful interview; seeing that time, after all, favors Isolt and himself; and fearful of changing life's irony into death's futility, Tristram leaves Cornwall on pain of being burned before the lady's forcibly opened eyes...
...poor old fifth just sits there and sees into the future when his sons and his sons' sons will hear that joke; he looks back into the past and sees all his ancestors laughing at that joke. And he doubles up with the pain of the cumulative sorrow. "Why must", the words ring in the somber chambers of his brain, "why must a professor tell the same story for thirty years, a hundred years?" Titters in oblivion! And four out of five...
...Butler dissenting, the Supreme Court ruled that the principle sustaining compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. It affirmed the state's right to call upon defectives for "sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned"; said the operation involved no "serious" pain or "substantial" danger. Concerning "discrimination," the Supreme Court said that the law could not be criticized for failing to reach all defectives when it was seeking to include them "so far and so fast" as its means allowed. Fifteen other* have laws similar to the Virginia statute. Supreme Court decisions...
...suffer from alcoholic poisoning"--like "to be hanged by the neck until dead", the phrase has an ominous connotation. The sufferer may be blissfully unconscious of his pain. He may shout joyfully--he may even sing; but these external manifestations of an inward laceration mean nothing. No lady will look upon him other than as on one whose punishment is that of the damned and whose torture knows no alleviation. And so, as the damsel said, "He may be boiled to you but to me he's an unfortunate victim of alcoholic poisoning...