Word: insult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Boylston street bridge after a football game. It is sufficient hardship for the large crowd always attendant upon a Saturday game to cross the river within the narrow palings of the bridge; but when several automobiles and carriages pass over at the same time, but in the opposite direction, insult is indeed added to injury. It would seem that we had returned to the triumphal procession of the Romans, and that while the chariots pass along, the people as well as the bridge groan. An effective measure might be taken by the football authorities to prevent such outrage by detailing...
...this way and, when it came to sterner discipline, I knew one or two events which showed me that this mild authority had its distinct limitations. I remember one case, in particular, when one of the most popular and influential students in College had been charged with an insult to a woman and when all Shaler's Kentucky chivalry was roused, until it turned out that the whole affair had been greatly overstated...
...finds relief from his despair in her purity and nobility. In the last act Bame, Alison's rejected suitor, believing that Marlowe is responsible for his misfortune in love, accuses the playwright of ill-conduct toward the girl. In order to save Alison's name. Marlowe ignores the insult and pretends to seize upon another with the result that he becomes engaged in the duel that causes his death...
...from real house-breaking and theft. If so, we should give the incident no further attention. Or we may consider it as something totally unworthy of a member of our community, as an affront to some of the best phases of the life of that community, and as an insult to the memory of one of our truest graduates. If so, we should uproot the evil, showing no mercy...
...Forbes' "Two Points of View." The matter is not original, the treatment reminiscent, the atmosphere uncertain. The sketch, however, is not lacking in good points and some of the repartee has a very collegiate tone--"What's the use of a roommate if you can't insult him?" Jack asks Bill. To which Bill meekly replies he's glad to be of use. The characters for so slight a composition are sketched with considerable skill...