Word: painlessly
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...Booted out of a New Brunswick divinity school for "bad misdemeanors and barefaced falsehoods" more than 60 years ago, he took up dentistry, practiced in Brooklyn, held street-corner lectures on oral hygiene and pulled teeth on the spot. In 1915 he changed his name, thereafter advertised himself as Painless Parker, Dentist. When death came he was running 27 offices on the West Coast, employing 75 dentists...
...Reduce. There is no good painless-pill method of reducing, the doctors were told. The A.M.A.'s Dr. Robert Stormont reported that only one drug has proved reasonably safe and useful (amphetamine or a derivative), and even this needs to be used under a doctor's care...
Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, who keeps photographers scampering to think up new angles, posed for her latest: a picture in bed. A week after an emergency appendectomy she gave cameramen a painless, luxurious stretch, announced that after another month's rest she would be strong enough to brave the mists of Niagara Falls to work on her next movie...
...idyl was interrupted for a while in 1944. At 53, ex-Soldier Dix was drafted into the Volkssturm for the last-ditch defense of the Reich. But his World War II service was brief and painless. "I was with my squad of ten other men near a little town on the Rhine. We were posted in a field. It was a warm spring afternoon. We all lay down in the grass and went to sleep The next thing we knew, there were some French African troops standing over us with machine guns in their hands. We just did what they...
...does not plummet, but it passes a dividend. His effort to show that Army folk are somehow different from civilians, and stronger on the simpler virtues, falls flat because his examination of Mel never gets beyond his surface manner. The old Marquand narrative skill is still there, with its painless transitions and smooth flashbacks. The talk is easy and natural, whether the talkers are Pentagon brass or radio tinhorns. But they all seem to be saying the things that better Marquand characters have said before...