Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation Lord Kylsant said that "public attacks" had hurt the company although its earnings for this year would be as large as during 1928. Yet canny Londoners, awaiting the auditor's report, were inclined to believe Viscount St. Davids' attack upon his brother had been more than a family squabble. For Lord Kylsant's official statement included the phrases: "write off . . . for estimated shrinkage (under present conditions in heavy British industries) of investments in other than shipping companies." These "investments" were guessed to be the base of Viscount St. Davids' anger, were seen to be unwise and unwarranted uses...
...comedy slant on character, the bitter grimace at success so marked in Barrie's later plays. "Success" is "The Twelve Pound Look" plus "Dear Brutus" in theme, scored delicately for a small orchestra. It is not powerful but it has imagination, a wishful beauty, and a kind of hurt sincerity which one remembers...
...five-power naval conference at London next January. To join Statesman Stimson, and Senators Reed and Robinson (of Arkansas), President Hoover appointed Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Ambassadors Charles Gates Dawes (Britain), Hugh Gibson (Belgium), Dwight Whitney Morrow (Mexico). Likewise he smoothed out a case of hurt pride when he induced Rear-Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, retired, to accompany the U. S. delegation to London as a "naval adviser." Admiral Jones, a full-fledged delegate to the fruitless conference of 1927 at Geneva, was represented as feeling he should go to the London parley in the same capacity...
...Pittsburgh, on the opening day of the small game season, one hunter was killed, two dropped dead, three bystanders were seriously hurt, 13 others wounded...
When Al Marsters suffered what looked to spectators like a twisted ankle in his Yale game, he had really hurt his back, was out for the season. Copying his injured friend's high-kneeing stride. Bill Morton showed that there is more than one way to get a bear by the tail. Dartmouth 13, Brown...