Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country. I do not want to discuss the provisions of the pending bill. I want to direct your attention, however, to the havoc which this bill is now working in the solidarity of the Nation. . . . There is not enough left in this controversy to justify the hurt and the danger of what we are doing. ... As soon as we take the lash from above the heads of these judges over there, some more of them will retire. ... If these advisers who are counseling the President to force that bill into this House under pressure which they may be able...
Said North Carolina's Carter Warren: "Mr. Speaker, Harry is tired. He is 'wore out.' His feet hurt him. Now, you have got to come from my section or from Georgia or Mississippi to know what it means when an old colored man's feet begin to always hurt him." After a rousing demonstration that lasted a full minute, the House voted, 340-10-0, to create Harry janitor-emeritus of the Ways & Means Committee...
Incensed and hurt, Sol Bloom cried: "At the outset I may say that this kind of work with me is a labor of love. Ever since I was a little boy I have delved into history. I like to read it, and I like to write it. ... I think that the books gotten out by the [Washington] Bicentennial Commission will live forever as the correct history of this country. . . . When I started on the Constitution to write the history of it, I just could not believe that there was so much misinformation on the Constitution...
...following were not easy years for Harry Bridges. Twice he was hurt in dock accidents. As early as 1924 he tried to organize his fellow workers but someone embezzled the union's funds. Though always bucking company unions, he nevertheless managed to find work until 1932, when he had to go on local relief for a short time. During the 1934 strike when he was turning back his union salary, he was on Fed- eral relief for about six weeks...
...summer sun beat down into Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week upon a towheaded young woman who, whirling to the strains of a sweating, shirtsleeved orchestra, sang and danced passionately around a plaster head on a property platter until her feet hurt and print dress was damp and dusty. She was Erica Darbo, the Scandinavian soprano whose U. S. debut set Cincinnati agog last February in Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit...