Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this covert insult another was speedily added when a Budapest junk dealer was permitted to bid in for 1,800 pengoes ($300) a quantity of scrap parts which could not be positively identified as identical with or different from those discovered on New Year's Day at the Austro-Hungarian frontier by an Austrian customs official but since then exclusively in the hands of Hungarians...
...monstrosity, in spite of being logical. Some few Mexicans and Nicaraguans, not impressed by the brotherly attitude of their northern fellow-Americans, employ "Gringo" and "pig" in referring to them, but both of these fall short of being satisfactory. A New Englander suggests "Yankee", but Southerners consider this an insult. The vogue of "Uncle Shylock" abroad has been almost as short-lived as that of "Saviors of Democracy". The whole search for a satisfactory term ends in a vicious circle, with no solution...
Last month, however, the Soviet revived the subject of Russian railway bonds. Only, instead of offering to make the old bonds good, or to issue new ones in their place, the Soviet airily added insult to injury by offering to sett new bonds, secured by the same old railways. The total issue proposed was $30,000,000, offered in England and the U. S. Interest was promised at the attractive rate...
...squealer" is a thief who betrays thieves. The squealer about whom Author Wallace has written is also a receiver of stolen goods; when a robber refuses the meagre price which he offers for purloined bonds or jewels, the squealer tells the police on him. This is an insult rather than an injury to the police. The wily foxes who play in Scotland Yard resent the squealer's impudently informative gratuities. Especially, one Detective Barrabal who "stroked his silky moustache ... with half-closed eyes. 'Squealer,' he said softly, 'I'm going to get you!' " But so multifarious are the disguises...
...than death's," and "you mean-'s". On the other hand, there is something to be said for the common, or garden variety, of politeness. It used to be said that a woman could travel from one end of this country to the other without meeting with discourtesy or insult--now it appears, even Mr. Auburn Street is not wholly safe. No one perhaps wants to go back to the days of "that's fighting talk" and "When you say that, smile", but there are certain obligations which the male still, if one be at all old fashioned, owes...