Word: affronts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policeman who does not think such snidery sidesplitting is New York City's Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine. Commissioner Valentine asked: "Why do so many members of the force, when serving a summons, act as though the violation were a personal affront? The violator does not offend you, so why cuss them and bawl them out? I always avoid sarcasm because I always resented it when I was a patrolman and a superior officer directed...
...suit the Japanese. What Sir Robert said on his own hook only made them angrier. There was nothing extraordinary, he pointed out, about the boarding. In World War I, Allied cruisers boarded 64 neutral vessels and took off 3,500 subjects of the Central Powers. Britain certainly intended no affront to the Japanese in this case, he said - no greater affront, in any event, than the Japanese had intended in boarding over 191 British ships in China seas since...
...poses of spiritualization? I think that Christianity will bitterly resent the gratuitous inference. . . . Dr. Witt pursues his blundering and ill-considered way by gratuitously unitarianizing most of Christendom [i.e., by remarking that Christians no longer believe Jesus divine]. As a Jew, I unqualifiedly condemn Rabbi Witt for this affront. . . . The truly devout Christian of whatever denomination has far more respect for the Jew who, conscientious to his own religious loyalties, does not observe Christmas, than for the Witt type of Jew who tries to crawl into Christmas observance, salving what remains of his Jewish conscience by endeavoring to water down...