Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Insult, Disloyalty...
...which is so common in the daily papers. I have influenced two of my clubs and many of my friends to become subscribers so I trust you will bear with me if I venture quite strongly to criticize the disloyalty and bad taste which led you to so grossly insult the President of the United States by publishing in your issue of May 31st a scurrilous article doubtless untruthful respecting his domestic relations, which you reprinted from the New Yorker under the title of "Les Majeste. I feel as many others of your readers do, to my knowledge, that such...
Dueling in military circles, on the other hand, is a genuine duel, fought to redress an insult, with either sword, rapier or pistol. These naturally often end fatally. Times change and therefore such duels have been relegated to the past as mentioned in your article...
Diplomatic Contribution. Having dozed or pondered while the foreign-devil-policeman spoke, slant-eyed delegates awoke to attention when Dr. Chao-Hsin Chu, Chinese Minister to Italy, made his contribution to the proceedings: "You insult my government and I am not afraid to insult yours...
...House of Commons, tense responsibility showed itself in increasingly acrimonious debate. Eventually such fighting Conservatives as Chancellor Churchill were denounced by Laborites in terms little short of insult, abuse...