Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fervors, the dance director presently hears that his backer has withdrawn his support because the young socialite wants his inamorata to be, not an actress, but his companion on a trip to Cuba. As vapid a snip as has ever disgraced his class in the cinema, Tod seems vaguely hurt because Janie, when she learns what subterfuges he has used, goes back to the musicomedy which the dance director is financing from his own pocket, helps the opening night to be completely gala...
...surprised to find that the master is digging in a small pile of manure when he meets him; he is more surprised when the master tells him that Susette, the maid, is his latest passion. Pendleton's dreams become nebulous. He is hurt when the master bluntly informs him that his novel is worthless, hurt because he realizes the master speaks the truth. Theodore Pratt's story is one of the few pieces in the anthology which will hold your interest and which shows no signs of padding...
...over-extended himself in the Loew deal, and also in paying an additional $20,000,000 for a group of British theatres, that in 1929 his companies owed about $90,000,000, all in short-term loans. In the summer of 1929 Mr. Fox was hurt in an automobile accident, laid up for several months. Whether lor this or for other reasons, neither Mr. Fox nor his bankers took the obvious step of selling to the public new stock in Fox Film and Fox Theatres. Then the market crash of October 1929 threw the whole problem of refinancing...
...Chase Securities Corp. and Albert Wiggin was chairman of Chase National Bank. Mr. Dodge sent a memorandum to Mr. Wiggin, said that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. might be brought in on Fox financing, added, "I am loath to do [this] unless necessary, as the splitup of the gravy would hurt my feelings." Faced last week, with this memo, Mr. Dodge at first claimed that by gravy he had meant prestige...
Marie Dressler: All I say is, you've got that great, trusting, lovely public out there, and we folks behind the scenes don't want to hurt that great, trusting, lovely public...