Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than there are in Indianapolis and St. Louis and Birmingham, Ala. combined, jam-packed the stone-cliffed canyon of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for half a day last week. Three out of every ten New Yorkers were there, 2,000,000 strong. They fainted, they cheered, their feet hurt, their clothes got mussed. At 58th Street their sheer bulk bulged through splintering plate glass windows. The Governor's motorcycle escort rode one down. A pack of them upturned a policeman and his screaming horse. There never had been so many people gathered anywhere in the nation since Armistice...
...apparently fresher than when the match began. He ran off three games, his flat drives equaling anyone's for speed. Crawford let him blaze out the set at love. In the last set, Crawford's gesture of patting his chest as though his heart or his lungs hurt him, became more noticeable. He managed to break through Perry's serve in the third game and then suddenly the deliberate manner that had seemed to indicate a carefully controlled supply of reserve energy became an expression of utter fatigue. Perry, dancing around the court, barely able to wait...
...writing and discarding novels. Her family knew she liked to read Galsworthy, play lacrosse and tennis, but they never suspected she was a writer; when they read about her prize-winning feat in the newspapers they were struck all of a heap. Determined as well as secretive, Authoress Beith hurt the feelings of Publisher Stokes's press agent by refusing a formal presentation of her prize. Only thing she would say about her writing: that she took it up "to take my mind off other more boring subjects...
...that she had been seized and yanked forward. Pathologist Proescher claimed he had conducted a personal experiment to disprove the accident theory. He had undressed, got into the Lamson bathtub, deliberately permitted himself to slip and hit his head against the bathtub rim and faucets. "I was not even hurt," he testified...
Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie (rhymes with "tee") took to golf when she was 11, because her doctor thought it might help the back she had hurt playing football with a team of little boys. D. E. Miner, golf professional at De Land, Fla. where the Van Wies spend their winters, helped build up her game, encouraged her to enter her first tournament at 16. At 17, Miss Van Wie beat Glenna Collett in the Florida East Coast championship. The 73 with which she beat her again, in the national final last year, was the best round she ever played. Impeccable...