Word: painlessness
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...Twain's incurable despondency and Nietzsche's insane courage. He is hygienically, not narrowly, sceptical of Freud's unsavory deductions; gorgeously, not bitterly, ironical over Wells' exuberant absurdities. His deprecation of the naiveté of Sir A. C. Doyle, "the open-air man," is as painless as his attack is concentrated upon the lubricity, cynicism, "impurity" and "degeneracy" of Anatole France...
...reduced the estimates?" Or, if the burden of taxes is not too heavy, but is poorly distributed so that it galls the Nation's back, the cry is: "Why so clumsy? Why such favoritism?" For the Chancellor of the Exchequer is supposed to be a sort of magician, conjuring painless taxation to meet the Nation's expenses. For him budget-time is the great trial of the year. So Mr. Churchill arrived at the annual Armageddon...
There is a painless gas which produces a fatal effect on the heart, of which the victim would have no knowledge before - or after - he dropped dead. There are gases which upset the digestive functions and prevent the taking of food. Other gases poison the blood and prevent it from carrying oxygen to the several parts of the body. Gases may be used which have a gradual effect, not noticed at first, or which-like mustard gas-seep into solid objects and infest a neighborhood for weeks...
...production has more than its fair share of novelties, chief of which is a deceptive lighting effect which changes girls in varicolored bathingsuits into marble statues in a wink. It also, by a painless amputation, obligingly transforms a damsel into the armless Venus de Milo...
...however, that the stock market is now, as upon former occasions, a better index to the future than the postprandial discourses of many of its critics. The largely featureless stock market of the past few weeks may prove next Spring to have reflected a period of duller but largely painless business conditions. But by that time the public who watch stock prices will be more interested in their bearing on the Fall of 1924 than upon their forecasting accuracy this Autumn...