Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More even than it suffers from being dieted to fit the stage, Point of No Return is hurt by a want of the book's wry irony, a failure to pose the dilemma that agitates Marquand himself quite as much as any other U.S. male. The play does not sufficiently cut two ways because Charles never seems sufficiently pulled two ways, never really seems involved in a fight against a job, only in a fierce struggle for one. And -a touch not in the book-if Charles's turndown of a fancy country-club bid is meant...
...amused, angrily wired Old Friend Ruark that their friendship was ended. Three days later, Humorist Ruark covered the course again, this time on hands & knees. "You see a man today," he wrote, "hip-deep in personal apology for one of those transgressions in judgment, I guess, where you hurt feelings unwittingly and people you love get mad at you. I undertook to kid [Baruch] a little and wound up crouched 'way back in his personal doghouse. I thought it exceedingly funny that somebody had snuck onto his properties . . . and started a liquor still ... I guess there are times when...
...explode black powder bombs all around the city, ambulances were standing by, and civil-defense workers were waiting to care for the injured. Then the realism got too thick. A bomb exploded prematurely, fatally injuring a policeman. Then another bomb went off ahead of time, and another cop was hurt. An ambulance screaming out on a make-believe run crashed into two cars, sending six victims to the hospital. Because of a mixup, no civil-defense workers were present to give first aid. Otherwise, said Police Chief Kermit Westbay, the alert was highly successful...
...name from the plaque, besides being absurdly expensive and detrimental to the appearance of the plaque, would not merely cease to honor Adolf Sannwald, but would actively dishonor him. A very minor error has been committed. Why spend money merely to make the plaque look worse and perhaps to hurt someone's feelings. Augustus J. Fabens...
...polled said that they believed that Lamont should let commuters take reserved books out at 5 or 6 p.m. Phillip J. McNiff, Lamont Librarian, steadfastly refuses to make any changes in the present system, pointing out that if commuters were allowed to take books out early it would only hurt the even larger group of resident students...