Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Insult to Congress
...smashing career. Almost six feet tall, weighing 175 pounds, she would stride through the swinging doors of Kansas saloons* smash windows, mirrors, bottles, glasses; upbraid bartenders and patrons. In a Wichita saloon in 1900 she eyed a nude over the bar, told the bartender that the picture was an insult to his mother. As the town marshal escorted her to the station, many a rotten egg was flung at the Hatchet-Swinger. She was jailed three times in Topeka. In Kiowa, when the mayor demanded that she pay damages to a battered saloon, she threatened him with fire and brimstone...
...Kansas was legally "dry," actually wet. Carrie Nation raided only one legally operated saloon. It was in Texas and was called "The Carrie Nation Saloon." Learning of this insult, Carrie Nation journeyed to Texas, made reprisal...
President Hernando Siles named two seconds. They called on the seconds of Dr. Calvo. Over thick cigars and thin-stemmed glasses there was talk. Then the four seconds, shrewd, announced that Dr. Calvo had turned his back on President Siles by accident, that there had been no insult, would be no fight...