Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planning jubilee celebrations for his church's 50th anniversary. Says he: "I decided we'd have really absolutely topnotch performances of music and art -so why not approach the people at the very top of the tree? They could only refuse, and that wouldn't hurt me." When his father, Canon Hussey, who had been St. Matthew's first vicar, offered to make a jubilee presentation to the church, Hussey hurried off to see Sculptor Moore, whose smooth, tiny-headed figures are considered by some critics to be tops in modern British art. Moore was dubious...
...most recent installments of "Why I Broke With Roosevelt" in Collier's,* Farley sounds as though he still hurt in every one of his 216 pounds at the very memory...
...allegory, which has already gone into 58 editions in France. All the animals in Rumor in the Forest experience inner torture in their common search for the ultimate meaning of life. About them, the trees of the dense forest look on with understanding, and are themselves capable of being hurt and forgiving. Skeptical readers who doubt that a moving tale of love, renunciation and death can be brought off as an animal story had better turn to Rumor in the Forest...
Twice on a Stretcher. Fifteen months before, Boxer Doyle had been carried from 'the same ring. He woke up in St. Vincent Charity Hospital and his head hurt; he had been hit a terrific wallop by Brooklyn's Artie Levine. The doctors said he had a brain concussion. Although he was only 21, Doyle had never been quite the same after that. Punch-drunk Jimmy wandered back home to Los Angeles, where his friends called him by his real name-Jimmy Delaney...
...bounced around the house sparring and roughhousing. Instead he sat for hours reading books, and talked as though he would never again enter a ring. But after nearly nine months of retirement, he began to stir again. He told a friend: "I have to prove I wasn't hurt . . . that I'm a man." Manager Paul Doyle lined up a few bouts, and Jimmy breezed through the first five, against second-raters...