Word: pains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed, barrel-chested roost-ruler of Puerto Rican politics bellowed with pain. This time, for a change, his three big rivals came out with echoes. How could they lose? The issue was everybody's sweetheart...
...Joint Advisory Council (containing Puerto Rican members) to initiate changes in the island's political status. The subcommittee stood stanchly on its assertion that the U.S. Congress must "determine for itself at the proper time . . . the ultimate political destiny of the Island." The Puerto Rican politicos cried in pain. Forthwith, the political campaign began. The great popular cause between now and the November Puerto Rican elections would be complete self-government, so far as the politicos were concerned. The issues closest to the hearts and stomachs of the two million hard-pressed people were still the economic and social...
...bombing explosion that wrecked the post office. "I had just seated myself next door when it happened," he cabled. "A sudden overwhelming roar, then shattered glass tinkling all around us. It was dark; huge masses of black smoke blotted the light from the room. A wild dissonant chorus of pain pierced up from the Via Cesare Battista. There were some 30 bodies and parts of bodies strewn in death's strange shapes over the street. And there were many others...
Meanwhile Sturges has two pictures waiting in the can. One is called Hail the Conquering Hero. The other, Great Without Glory, is an adaptation of René Fülöp-Miller's Triumph Over Pain, which was the story of anesthesia. It is still the story of anesthesia-but it is also a Sturges farce. It remains to be seen what Sturges might do with really major material, such a Seven Against Thebes, or the Oberammergau Players...
Reading the Body. The doctors tell in detail how, given two patients with severe pain over the stomach, they may be able to tell which has a gastric ulcer and which has gall-bladder trouble. The patient with the ulcer is likely to be alert, dark-haired (but with an almost hairless chest), slim, long-jawed (but with delicate facial bones). He is likely to have oblong teeth, long hands, a sharp angle where ribs join the breastbone, "somewhat narrow lips, often down-curving at their angles." The patient with gall-bladder trouble is likely to be phlegmatic, blond...