Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although many were unable to hear the words of untalented Voroshilov for the snorting of horses, his remarks were taken as a subtle insult to the non-Communist Polish army across the frontier. Polish farmers whose hayricks and chicken yards may be commandeered during maneuvers just as in actual war times, regard the war games of the Polish army as an unavoidable annual catastrophe...
...reading novelist Zweig's book, found to his horror and amazement that it was vulgar, pacifistic, shockingly outspoken, likely to cause discontent among German troops. Editor von Bogen wrote a review in which he said that Novelist Zweig was a "dirty Asiatic fellow whose book was an insult to many noble German ladies...
French-frying one's generals is an insult no potent bandit king can tolerate. Fierce King Habibullah therefore decreed that any of his own subjects who should publicly utter the name of execrable "Nadir Khan" should...
...Cosmopolitan. Frazier Hunt, onetime War correspondent & Mexican sugar planter, wrote that at Berlin "only the other day" he had witnessed two German students fight, not a Schlägermensur or sport duel, wherein undergraduates belabor one another with large, blunt broadswords, but a secret, illegal Säbelmensur, oldtime insult duel, with sharp sabres...
...propose that we send a resolution to Their Royal Highness," shrilled Sabbatarian Fraser, "a resolution urging that such an insult to Scotland shall not take place again...