Word: hurt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remember most unhappily," wrote John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week, "the protracted tax litigation between my father and the village of North Tarrytown, N. Y. Although it resulted in his favor, it left my father a feeling of hurt and injury that I think never quite disappeared." Whether or not he expected to end feeling hurt or injured, Mr. Rockefeller six years ago took court action to have the 1934 assessed valuation ($2,619, 890) on his North Tarrytown property, including a corner of his vast Pocantico Hills estate reduced...
...South Barre, Mass., a deputy sheriff on duty in a woollen strike handed in his badge. He said his feet hurt, he didn't like the smell of tear gas, and he was promised...
...Once the trephining of the skull was over . . . my mood underwent a change. There was a sound of pumping and draining and I could hear the drip, drip of a liquid. Although my brain didn't hurt at all, it did hurt me when one of the instruments fell on to the glass with a sharp, metallic sound. A certain idea passing through my mind hurt me too. It had nothing to do with my present situation...
...felt them wheel me under the lamp," he wrote. "I felt a succession of little pricks in a wide circle ... on my head. Then . . . one long horizontal incision at the back of my neck. This did not hurt me either. I felt soft gestures, as if my flesh were being opened and folded back...
Three days later the gods ran out on her and, still keeping Harlem posted, saddened Miss Mercer had to write: "Prince Batoula was very disgusted with the cheap publicity. The papers in Paris carried the story and it has hurt him tremendously. I didn't know it meant so much to him. You know he has a certain standard to maintain here and now he has been completely ruined. He is not like the Americans. He can trace his ancestry back for 600 years. He has never been a slave and neither have any of his people...