Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essential values to care for it because of these. It therefore makes appeal to them on other grounds. It hopes that in the fact that one football team has beaten another they will find reason for endowing the scholarship with which the first team is 'connected.' It offers an insult to their intelligence as an appeal to their favor...
...France, as elsewhere, nothing fails like failure. And last week M. Caillaux added insult to failure by two acts: 1) He defied the powerful Radical-Socialist bloc, which he had attempted to conciliate at its caucus in Nice (TIME, Oct. 23), by flatly declaring that he would "bar the way" to the adoption of its pet capital-levy panacea; 2) He refused the demands of Premier Painleve, Foreign Minister Briand and the rest of the Cabinet that he resign as a politically insolvent Finance Minister...
...Manassa, Colo., (birth town of Pugilist Jack Dempsey) members of the school board proposed to name the new high school "The Jack Dempsey School." Came a fierce protest from the American Legion. "A direct affront-yes, an insult-to every World War veteran," said the Chairman of the Denver District Rehabilitation Committee...
After one of the early nights of the run, a brilliantly dressed young husband and wife were heard to remark on leaving that the evening was an insult. Probably it is a trifle too true for their correct intelligence. Yet in deference to just such correct intelligence the Theatre Guild expurgated the play the evil-minded?and still immensely moving to the thoughtful...
...without irritation, occasionally look up an unknown word ; I can worry along with your habit of referring to little-known persons by their vocational epithets - but a reference to Keats as "Poet" John Keats seems an insult to tho intelligence of your readers if not to the fame of one of the world's great spirits...