Word: torments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Without Money (TIME, Feb. 24). The reporter showed the old lady a copy of her son's book, with which she apparently was unfamiliar. He read her a passage about herself: "She slaved, she worked herself to the bone keeping us fresh and neat. The bedbugs were a torment to her. She doused the beds with kerosene, changed the sheets, sprayed the mattresses in an endless frantic war with the bedbugs...
...true that some motors are difficult to warm up without being raced a bit, but the noise lovers, infatuated with their glorified rattle, do not stop at this, but race it again and again, to the torment of all within two blocks...
...cannot feel that Mr. Powel went through any great creative torment to write "Married Money." On the contrary, he must have had a lot of fun doing it. He mocks a good many American foibles, but in a way so good-natured and light-hearted that he leaves the impression of preferring the foibles to perfection...
...Commissioner," said burglarious Ibrahim, "kept my body without nourishment and my soul in torment for five days. On the sixth he called me into his office. On the table was a platter of tasty chicken with rice, a creamy dessert and a dish of applesauce. All of these things were to be mine if I would make a complete confession. Because of my hunger I told him a lot of things that were not true...