Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Times careened against his august neighbors. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who was along "to take care of my biggest taxpayer," tottered. Arthur S, Tuttie, New York State engineer for Federal public works, went through the observation car's glass door, rump first. No one was hurt...
...terrified, to wit. a steer." The steer had crashed into an exit gate of the rodeo arena, rebounded and dashed off bellowing with pain, to the alarm of British spectators who would scarcely have noticed dogs permitted to "terrify" a fox. "Things like that don't hurt a tough steer," snorted Tex Austin. "So far our rodeo has had only four real accidents- all of them to cowboys. The record is four broken collarbones and one broken arm. That's what happened to my men. They have a great Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals here...
...centre of the ring, Baer smashed him in the face. A cowardly fighter would have dropped to the floor and stayed there. A wise one would have rested until the referee counted nine. Camera heaved himself up at the count of two, floundered toward his opponent like an enormous hurt animal. This time Baer hit him three hard cracks before he went sprawling again. The courage which made Carnera get up once more gave dignity to the end of an otherwise brutal comedy. To the referee he mumbled something which he later denied was a request to stop the fight...
Heart Song (Fox). Hurt in a hunting accident, the Duke de Pontignac (Charles Boyer) is ready to start recovering when, lying in bed with his eyes bandaged, he hears a girl's voice singing an unknown song. Well again, he tries to find the singer. At first he thinks she must be the stately, flirtatious Empress Eugenie (Mady Christians). Instead it turns out to be the Empress's vivacious little hairdresser (Lilian Harvey). The song was written for and dedicated to her by her sweetheart, an ambitious young musician. He does not much mind losing her when...
...Downs, a dark, rainy morning cut the crowd to 500,000. Lord Lonsdale's car slithered into a ditch and he arrived late. When he entered the Royal Box, the King, without a single detective to watch him while he watched the race, congratulated him on not being hurt, raised his glasses to follow the parade to the post. At the start. Lord Dewar's Medieval Knight got the lead, held it for a mile. The Maharajah of Rajpipla who bought Windsor Lad as a yearling for ?1.300 and who had made Derby Day a holiday...