Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need hardly tell you that this statement, appearing in your magazine even as a quotation, will do untold hurt to our work. The Volunteers of America are feeding 4,000 people a day in Seattle, Wash., and at least 2,000 in Tacoma. This work is supported by public donations and those who give to it will be greatly shocked by the statement appearing in Mr. Dreiser's book...
Emotion. Most U. S. citizens have been hurt by the decline in prices. Many of them cannot believe present prices are justified by future prospects. Most of them believe bears ''selling what they did not own" depresses prices. Many of them, including their President, are sure that the market's decline made business worse. In normal times nobody likes a bear. When the bear has been right and the people wrong they dislike him even more intensely. Wall Street last week awaited the start of the Senate's investigation with some fear, much curiosity. Its fear was chiefly that...
Thus it would seem that the Hitlerites have cast their total strength in yesterday's election, while von Hindenburg may lose or gain in his number of votes. If Hitler wins, it cannot be determind whether German credit will be hurt abroad, since Hitler has promised that all reparations will be paid, while if von Hindenburg wins, the German credit will be definitely put upon a sounder basis...
...heroine the Democratic Party stumbles on from distress to disaster. In a crisis it decided to cooperate with the Republican administration. Relief measures were jointly planned and passed under the protection of the white flag, but now the truce has been broken by Republicans, and the Democrats feel extremely hurt by the ingratitude. But so trapped in the web of events has the Democratic Party become that it can do nothing more than complain of betrayal. If Mr. Garner and his cohorts refuse further support to the Hoover Administration, they draw upon their heads blame for prolonging the depression...
...Iris goes on the stage, marries Pat Arden. Everything goes well until Pat is unfaithful with a girl Iris hates. Iris does not mind the unfaithfulness but she does mind the girl. Though Pat still loves Iris and she still loves him, their marriage and Iris' life are hurt beyond repair...