Word: hurt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embarrassed when at the ring of the bell a young girl not much bigger than the size of my bag came up, strapped the luggage on her back and was off three flights of stairs to my room. When I offered to help she was hurt. This is her job, she explained; and she does it with as much pride as I must do whatever I'm doing. So I gave her five francs and she kissed my hand...
...this point Mr. Critchfield's observations halted because he was knocked out. When he revived, the Douglas transport was wedged between two trees, minus its wings and considerably messed up. But only Pilot Merrill was badly hurt, with a broken jaw, a broken ankle. Overconfident, as he readily admitted, he had been led astray by bad weather-reporting and rain static on the radio, had come down through the overcast thinking he was at Newark, had found a hillside instead. By extraordinary luck and skill he managed to make a forced landing...
...parents of the killer, publishers of the weekly Plaindealer & Modoc County Times, issued their newspaper with this lead story: "As we go to press the tragic news is brought to us that our son Harry French has shot Claude L. McCracken, editor of the Modoc Mail. McCracken is seriously hurt. We ask you, our readers, to pray for us all in this hour of tragedy. Please pray for us that the injured man recovers. We apologize for the uncompleted parts in our paper. Our strength and heart in our work is gone tonight. "R. A. and G. P. French...
...reverberation heard for a mile, the gas tanks exploded, spread flames which were soon shooting 40 ft. high. The wreckage rolled over, lay on its side across the road. The engine, torn completely off, fell 200 ft. away. The driver and another man shot through the windshield, badly hurt, clothes ablaze. Three others managed to crawl through the windows. But 18 screaming, fighting men and women burned to death inside...
Sometimes advance ballyhoo for a movie can hurt it. The press agents for "Maid of Salem" have made a reputation that the picture cannot live up to. Those who go because the previews attract them will be disappointed, the more's the pity because the show is a good one. It is not a study of witchcraft and bigotry in an isolated community nor is it a picture of life in Colonial New England. It is simply a good adventure story with clean, true love surmounting a series of exciting perils...