Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticized for telling the truth by these two Senators? Is it because of demands made upon them by Catholic constituents? Is it because of a presidential ambition on the part of one? What is it in this thing that prompts two Senators to stand up here and insult the Protestant people of America by attacking a Protestant Senator for daring to tell the truth about the efforts of a Catholic organization to involve our country in a foreign war? . . . I have no apology to make to the Senator from Missouri, and I do not fear in the least the thrusts...
...third time in three months Harvard men were humiliated. The first time was in November when a rude and ribald number of the Harvard Lampoon (funny monthly) was issued to insult Princeton (TIME, Nov. 22). The second time was when Princeton, having beaten Harvard in football "as usual," and weary of Harvard complaints, severed athletic relations. The third time was last week when a hulking onetime Harvard footballer, one Wynant D. Hubbard, 21, was discovered to have needed money badly enough to forget he was supposed to be a gentleman. Needy Mr. Hubbard had, for a sum, let Liberty (weekly...
...examination books are written for instructors: proctors have no right to read them, and these few who take the right and make sport over them insult every student in the examination room...
...Last week the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced that these two potent champions would press the suit of Blanche S. Brookins against the Pullman Co. and the Atlantic Coast Line Railway for damages of $25,000. The Negress charges that the defendants subjected her to "insult, mortification and injury to her nervous system and general health"; that she was a passenger in interstate commerce (having bought through accommodations from New York to Orlando, Fla.), and therefore not subject to Florida...
...Noose-Bootleggers, gunmen, tears. An insult to the intelligence of Broadway which is justifying itself by succeeding...