Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a statement is an insult and the severest slam you could inflict upon a class of women a large part of whom are university graduates, all of whom are high school graduates, and of whom is required three to four years of practical and theoretical training to fit them for their profession...
Unfortunately the letter came under the eye of the French secret service, and four operatives were sent after "the man who has dared to insult the Premier of France." Simultaneously the Minister of Commerce started proceedings against the carpenter for having "illegally mailed currency in an unregistered letter...
...this ponderous breaking of a carpenter upon wheels within wheels came to an end when M. Briand himself chanced to read his admirer's letter. Touched by its evident sincerity he detected no insult, called off the secret service and the Minister of Commerce, sent the carpenter a warm note of appreciation, returned the 1,000 francs...
...will not sit at the same table with such a vagabond ne er-do-well as Raditch!" In what country was this insult passed...
...shaky iron tables in front of Florian's, most famous of the cafes facing the Piazza San Marco, Venice. Pulling out a wad of 100-lira notes, he tore them one by one across the middle, chanting full-throatedly: "She smacks me, she smacks me not!" Vexed at this insult to the national currency?this tactless hint that it was worthless?angry Venetians closed in upon the sailor, pummeled him, tweaked his broad nose, sought vainly to tug at his woolly hair...