Word: painless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class of 1933 enters college its members are reminded to what an extent modern practice has robbed education of its former terrors. The pace of the average freshman across the campus no longer bears any relation to that of the snail. Education has been made as painless as possible. If, in easing entrance requirements so as to admit the vast numbers who are now candidates for degrees in America, the college authorities have sacrificed scholarship, they have added to the adolescent's joy in life. Addressing the students of Columbia at the formal opening of its one hundred and seventy...
Slap. Once Molnar irritably slapped his crying baby. For that, his first wife, Margarat Veszi, divorced Mm. In Liliom he wrote that, in love, slaps are necessary, painless. He sent the play to her, remarried her on the strength of it. At Liliom's premiere he, nervous, slapped her. Again divorce...
...When you get over your mad and want to be reinstated what provision is there to make that easy and painless to your pride...
Vague declarations that examinations should be composed with regard to some ephemeral standard of higher education seem to be the cries of those who dislike doing the work assigned them, rather than the constructive suggestions of those who see a means of initiating this painless exposure to learning. (Name withheld on request...
...repetitious, childlike pomposity of this "edict" is not quite an accurate index of Wizard Evans' mental calibre, for with the edict went a rider. Wizard Evans, who gained his knowledge of human nature as a dentist, had invented the "Knights of the Forest" as a painless method of extracting $1 from each & every Klansman. Salaries had to be paid, and it would have been unwise to levy an unembellished assessment. The "Knights of the Forest," therefore, constituted an obligatory degree palliated by the following ritual...