Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiff competition from such alert young firms as Aarons & Freedley (Girl Crazy), Schwab & Mandel (America's Sweetheart), Green & Gensler (Fine & Dandy), oldtime Producer Hammerstein's shows seemed to grow poorly and more poorly. His first play of this season, Luana, during the rehearsals for which he got hurt in a fight (TIME, Aug. 11), was a failure. His second show, Ballyhoo, was taken over after a two-week run by Funnyman W. C. Fields and the cast. Philosophical about his losses, 54-year-old Producer Hammerstein said last week: "When Mayor Walker comes back I will...
...hard-driven pony of Poloist H, W, ("Rube") Williams (international squad) stumbled against the boundary boards of a San Mateo, Calif, polo field, leaped clean through a crowded spectators' box, felled one man in transit, crashed into two parked autos. Poloist Williams hurt his knee...
...optimistic outlook for journalism which Walter Lippman pictures in the current Yale Review will be balm to those hurt minds which have seen the decline of civilization in the scare head lines, scandal stories, and lurid illustrations of the tabloids. Mr. Lippman fore-tells a general revulsion against the romantic tricks of the yellow press which will lead to a new "objective" journalism. Fresh reporting methods rather than sensational stories will be the means of preventing papers from acquiring the soporific faculty of government reports...
...which young girls were shipped in from Los Angeles. Pantages is at present at liberty under $100,000 bond since his conviction (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929) of attacking 17-year-old Dancer Eunice Pringle. He declared the new charges were "just dirt" dug up by his enemies to hurt his appeal in the Pringle case...
Other of Mr. Brunt's charges are that Mr. Paepcke's interests as president of Chicago Mill & Lumber Corp. conflict with his interests in Container Corp.; that Container Corp.'s policy of big volume at low prices has been disastrous, hurt its product; that the management should be held liable for buying the company's own stock at prices higher than the present market...