Word: painlessness
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...fighting. The principal advantage of gas, however, is that it lowers the efficiency of the entire army more than 50 per cent because of the fact that masks interfere with eating, speaking, marching, and general fighting. I cannot agree that dichlorethyl sulphide, commonly called mustard gas or 'Yperite' is painless...
...terrible episode of the six Russian peasants bitten by a pack of mad wolves and sent to the Institut Pasteur." Dr. Munthe continues with his sorry tale of how these six moujiks all became "raving mad" and the "doomed men" were "helped to a painless death" and "all of the newspapers were full of the most ghastly descriptions of the death of the Russian moujiks...
...manner in which Mr. Grover develops book enthusiasts from literary anaemics could be adopted to advantage by other professors throughout the country. It is a painless process to cultural development which overtakes the student unaware...
...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...