Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another student slipped and hurt his ankle. He was told he had sprained it. Three days later he found it was broken. One student was placed in the measles ward before the doctors knew for certain that he was afflicted. Another student with a cold and a high temperature was moved from one ward to another, the change in temperature brought about an attack of pneumonia. Another case illustrates the careless diagnosis of the physicians, even though it was but a minor ailment. A student complaining of a sore finger was told by the doctor there was nothing wrong. Upon...
...always snapped up as somebody's wife or mistress. Ulanova has superseded Semyonovna who was recently snapped up by potent Comrade Leo M. Karakhan, Soviet Ambassador to Turkey. Three days before, in her last appearance in Russian ballet last week, Mrs. Karakhan slipped, fell, announced herself mildly hurt. She generously applauded her successor Ulanova from...
...lovely young Vanessa (Helen Hayes) and an anti-social introvert with a persecution complex (Otto Kruger). The trouble starts when Benjie goes to China instead of marrying Vanessa immediately. When he gets back, the manor house burns down and she suspects him of cowardice in not rescuing her father. Hurt, Benjie marries a barmaid. Dismayed, Vanessa marries the introvert. Not until Benjie has lost an arm, Vanessa's husband has died from the shock of seeing a Christmas present, and an old friend of the family (Henry Stephenson) has predicted that there is no way out, do Benjie...
...Wright, the witnesses admitted, had been fully dressed. The referee looked hurt. "This is the first divorce case I ever heard of," said he, "where people committed adultery in full dress...
...limp from the stirrup. The other, a chinless, watery-eyed youth, helped his companion dismount, hobble into the house. Dr. Mudd received them in his nightshirt. A kindly, cultured young physician, he was already well established in his country practice, well-liked and well-to-do. He set the hurt man's broken leg, put him to bed. At 2 o'clock that afternoon, despite the physician's protests, the strangers rode away. Short time later Dr. Mudd heard the awful news of President Lincoln's assassination...