Word: painfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mankind was meant to give and suffer pain...
...hands over his eyes. Ever lie hear.; in his heart the voice of the once happy squirrel, reproaching him for the hurt he did her furry side, her tender paw, and he weeps with regret in the sullen copice, uncomforted. The squirrel, unable to support any longer the pain of her wound, falls swooning at his feet. He picks her up. He bandages with fumbling care her paw in a silk ribbon. Ah, how they rejoice then, the creatures who before harangued him ; how shyly they regard him, transfixed at his compassion ! Now he will learn his lessons...
Thus reassured that I should suffer no pain and lose no blood by exposing myself to the "smaller and quite inoffensive" members of the species, of avowed vegetarian habits, I have run the risk of upsetting the tranquil quiet of a vacation day by opening the door to the flying galley proofs of this Student Liberal Club publication...
...period when a novel is being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief that, when an author gets over this pain of production, his product becomes dull and profitless. After six years of newspaper work?years which Miss Ferber places ahead of any university courses she might have had?you would think that she could sit down at a typewriter and dash off a novel as a reporter accomplishes an assignment...
...said, "Although pain isn't real...