Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debate with him the Prohibition question. To say that Dr. Butler's reply is flippant is to speak mildly. Dr. Butler should set a good example to the young. That is not an effective way to teach. They are not in need of examples of flippancy, rudeness and insult. Dr. Butler could have ignored the challenge, but why publicly insult Mr. Upshaw? He says the Congressman's nickname is Pshaw and hence he is not regarded as carrying on the tradition of Toombs, Stephens, Ben Hill and Gordon. Does that follow? Is one responsible for his name...
...sequel is almost incredible. The Italian Embassy at London was instructed to lodge a protest against this part of Premier Baldwin's speech with the British Foreign Office! Mussolini, it appears will brook no insult. Mr. Baldwin, easy going, though he is, found himself suddenly accused by the English Press of having floundered into a "blazing indiscretion...
...article [against birth control] by G. K. Chesterton that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, although displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting...
Struck with M. Renaudel's complete indifference to what appeared from its tone an insult, a young millionaire Deputy of the Right asked: "Are you really a veterinary surgeon?" "Why do you ask?" queried Renaudel innocently...
...public have spoken and written in the warmest term's of the devoted loyalty, the unflagging cheerfulness and the unexceled bravery of the Negro troops under their command. Moreover, two of the officers I have named expressed amazement that any troops could bear up under the continual insult, calumny and indignities visited upon the colored men in their command by white men and officers presumably harboring just such an attitude as is revealed in the article of General Bullard...