Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week was a gift of $10,000 last July by Manhattan Financier Bernard Baruch to take 83 wounded Lincoln-Washington Battalion men home. Mr. Baruch explained : "They were willing to fight for something they believed in and I had the money to bring them home when they got hurt...
...that a "state of war" does not exist because it has never been "declared." He has been able to do so, without threat of impeachment, because the sentiment in Congress which rammed through the Neutrality Act is on the side of the party which the Act, if enforced, would hurt most. Unless war between Czechoslovakia, Germany and other powers were formally declared, the President could again preserve the fiction and all U. S. hands would be free from the Neutrality Act's rigid restrictions...
...National Bituminous Coal Commission at once protested to FPC that the proposed line would hurt the coal industry and the railroads...
...even admirers who liked the thought of rubber floors on which children could not be hurt, or the fog gun for washing dishes, judged Mr. Fuller's proposal that the house be set up by being dropped from a Zeppelin a little visionary. Although it excited less discussion, critics were more impressed by his model bathroom exhibited in Manhattan four months ago, supplanting the present complex arrangement of pipes and drains with a unified, economical design as symmetrical as a piece of metal sculpture...
...called off. No one minded. The young jitterbugs danced to their own mouth organs and to 10? saxophones, to no music at all, voicing the appalling floy floys, shim shams and swizzle-swipes which are the lingo of swing. Four hundred extra policemen marveled that no one was hurt. It was, in the words of Chicago Daily Newsman Gene Morgan, "the strangest manifestation of youthful exuberance perhaps ever witnessed since the Middle Ages' ill-fated Children's Crusade...