Word: pains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Like Queen Mary of England (see p. 15), Mrs. Coolidge last week fell ill. A heavy cold sent her to bed with pain in her side and a trained nurse standing by. After four days, White House Physician James Francis Coupal reported her convalescent. The attack caused her to miss a state function for the first time in her two terms as White House hostess. President Coolidge alone conducted a formal dinner to Speaker Longworth of the House...
With her British doctors the Maharani joked casually between spasms of pain in a manner which they fervently described as "sporting...
...some time "The Student Vagabond" has been giving me a steadily increasing pain in the neck, which has now reached the point where I am going to say something about it. Whoever he is, he displays a narrow spread of vision in his choice of subjects, to say the least. It is quite obvious that he is concentrating in history and literature, and that his two friends are in fine arts and philosophy. Thus far this year there have been, to the best of my knowledge, one reference to a lecture in the division of music, one reference...
...over and he had been lugged ashore, Claire had the momentary pang of remorse it had been his intention to inspire. But because, on their subsequent encounter, he employed a term of callow reproach of which the effect upon Claire was wonderful and strange. "Out of her rage and pain and the hot pressure of old, old instincts and urges, intelligence was being born. For the first time in her life she had just had a thought...
...back and shudder at the cruelty of ancient and medieval times. We wonder how human beings possessing the average allotment of sanity could ever have taken such fiendish delight in the torture of prisoners or the persecution of martyrs. But what assurance have we that the joy of witnessing pain is a trait of the past? A certain recent event, among other things, makes some of us wonder...