Word: hurte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spottsylvania Court House where trees were felled by steady musket-fire; at North Anna where Lee entrenched before Grant could arrive; at Cold Harbor where steady artillery hammering failed utterly against tall breastworks, Lee baited Grant, taunted him, hurt him. Petersburg saw Lee defending the Danville railway, source of Confederate supplies, and losing men. Grant lost more, but had more to lose. The pressure was beginning to tell on Lee. In the spring of 1865, a gallant remnant of Lee's army, to whose "tattered standards the fortunes of the Confederacy had been nailed," laid down its arms...
...idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into a ravine close by. There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason-Blodgett troupe had found. Their muleteers ran fearfully away, carrying with them the supplies. Gregory Mason, scribe, fell from the top of the pyramid and hurt himself; he fell through the roof of a buried building and hurt himself more; the tree which held his hammock also fell, almost on him. So the expedition paused for a while...
Free to bust up a prayer meetin' or a quiltin' jamboree: lights out, shots in the dark, screams, "Lawd, my daddy hurt?"-and all "jes' for the hell...
...should a father say that of his only son?" Then the tale moves swiftly through generations down to Arthur Levy, intelligent psychiatrist, in contemporary U. S. Mr. Levy marries a Christian woman, has a child by her. But he is troubled about his race, hurt by the slurs of Nordics; so he finally leaves his family to go on a Jewish mission in the Balkans. The thesis is that a Jew cannot lead a full and intellectually free life on earth when he does as Gentiles do. Many critics have passionately praised this book, but an epic is seldom written...
...Lindbergh, punctual messenger, delivered the resolution when he reached Washington. President Coolidge also received a cablegram from President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker Jose Toussoto of the Puerto Rican House, confirming the resolution's import. Disappointed, hurt, President Coolidge delayed answering until last fortnight, when he wrote a long letter to Horace Mann Towner, the onetime (1911-23) Congressman from Iowa whom President Harding made Governor of Porto Rico five years...