Word: hurte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with horse and farmer, into the ditch. A car which thundered behind, anonymously piloted, skidded likewise but slued by, missing the assorted debris by inches. As ever, Mr. Baldwin rose to the occasion, imperturbable, good-natured. First he made sure that none of the human beings concerned had been hurt. Then he assisted in quieting the slightly bruised and badly frightened horse; helped to get both horse and cart out of the ditch. Finally he climbed back into his damaged car, which was coaxed by the chauffeur at a walking pace to Amershal. There the Baldwins caught the first train...
...have tried to show Jurgen facing the unanswerable riddle of why things are as they are; Jurgen, 'clad in the armor of his hurt,' spinning giddily through life, strutting, posturing, fighting, loving, pretending; Jurgen proclaiming himself count, duke, king, emperor, god; Jurgen, beaten at last by the pathos and mystery of life, bidding farewell to that dream of beauty which he had the vision to see but not the strength to follow...
Nothing in recent years has hurt me more than to see official Harvard repudiate the amateur theatrical leadership it had so bravely assumed, and nothing would buck up my pride more than to see the Harvard Dramatic Club so supported by undergraduate enthusiasm that it could carry on the good work whatever the attitude of the authorities. The theatre of tomorrow belongs to the youth of today. The Harvard Dramatic Club is youth, I hope confident, I hope daring, I hope full of the will to experiment. Personally, I am getting a bit woary of "Scholarship". I want education that...
...wrote more of these small tales that enchant children and philosophers, poets and delinquents, because in their translucence the mind sees its own reflection. One evening Hans, whose first friend was a pig, and his last a king, fell out of bed so awkwardly that he gave himself a hurt from which he never recovered. He died...
Some of the "prohibition beverage" securities, however, are not so much, competitors of alcoholic drinks or supplanters as accessories thereto. If bootlegging were suddenly abolished, many temperance-drink companies would be hurt rather than helped, since much of the present demand for their products arises from the desire of consumers of green Scotch whisky to mitigate its "iodine" and "nicotine" taste...