Word: pang
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...extreme retardation of the process vulgarly called "healing." Now it happens that from the haemophilic House of Hesse-Darmstadt have sprung the last of the Russian Tsarinas, Alexandra, and the present Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain. To each of these exalted mothers came the bitter pang of recognizing in her first born son a haemophile...
...success of his gesture was greater than Nelson knew. Not because, after his canoe had tipped 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...
Erie R.R. With a pang stockholders in the Erie railroad last week learned that the company had incurred a deficit of $201,683 on its November business. They recalled the previous November 1926, when the month's surplus had been $2,248,113 - 11 times the deficit...
What Ann Brought Home. Ann was sent to a neighboring town in Indiana for crepe de chine. She brought back a husband, as girls will. The trouble starts when the new bridegroom dreams fish farms when he should be thinking sawmill. However, it ends without a pang. Earl Carroll, known over the country for his daring revues, "bathtub" scandal, is producing the play. For him it is in the nature of a bitter gesture. He said, in as many words, that, since the public was so insistent upon cleanliness and purity in the theatre, he would give them a chance...
...sharpened for the Prince's neck and the mob crying for compassion. Princess Turandot, icy white, on a Palace balcony, signals to the executioners to proceed. An unknown prince, thrilled by her beauty, is determined to win her or die by the selfsame enigmas. The second act: Ping, Pang and Pong, comic ministers, jabber of the seven thousand centuries of China's glorious past, of Turandot's 13 suitors, headless now, who had dared desire her. A square out side the Palace with steps upon steps mounting the depth of the stage, the bearded emperor high...