Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oldtime Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries slapped a $150,000 slander suit against two small-time promoters for advertising a bingo-type game called "Conflict" played in "Jeffries' Barn" on his Burbank, Calif, ranch. Such goings-on, 75-year-old Jim Jeffries charged, would hurt his "good name...
...Morris has long been a familiar figure in Santa Fe, N.Mex. A chunky mild-mannered, roughly dressed man, he looks older than his 48 years, talks in the hurt, hesitant fashion of Victor Moore Townspeople had heard, vaguely, that he was a painter. Some wondered how he got along, and what made...
Crossfire. In Bangkok, a stickup man nabbed by a victim explained to police that he used a toy pistol instead of a real one because his boss had given him strict orders not to hurt anybody...
...plan very closely resembles that backed by President Conant, the American Association on Universities and other groups. Many people have opposed such a proposal, complaining that U.M.S. would wipe out many schools and hurt civilian professions during its first years. But, as Conant, and now Marshall, have pointed out, the short-run system of deferments should largely solve that problem. As for providing a sufficient amount of manpower for our now-weak defenses, no plan alone could be successful. We will always be dependent to some degree on voluntary enlistments And U.M.S. does supply the right answers to the questions...
...worth knowing." But a frightened and hungry U.S. public had no stomach for ridicule, and ridicule had always been the popular basis for the Mencken boom. By the late '30s, many bright young people barely knew who Mencken was. To the old campus hero that was a mortal hurt, but he never changed. Wrote he: "On all known subjects, from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five years...