Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bostonians, thinking not of cash or credit, continued to flock blithely to hear Mr. Insult's singers...
...this time, Okladsky was in prison and shortly after the assassination he was brought up for trial. To his Tsarist judges he said: "I do not ask and I do not need your leniency. On the contrary, if you show me mercy, I shall regard this as a personal insult." He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was almost immediately commuted...
...swallowed that insult to your readers -only to open this week to two columns of Papacy and Romish church...
...Through a huissier, a process server, an official notification of the divorce proceedings is presented at the domicile of the defendant. In the usual American case he is asked return to the wife, and it is this written refusal which constitutes the injure grave, or grave insult upon which the later action is taken. This is legally termed "refus de reintegrer le domicile conjugal," or a refusal to return to the conjugal domicile...
...shame, a burning shame is this to the lofty toned America of 1917 and 1918. A lasting insult to the men of 1776 who fought our battles and won our freedom for us. The writer is not a swearing man; if he were he would lift aloft the Henry Watterson war-cry in the late Hohenzollern strife and paraphrasing it devoutly cry: 'To hell with the name Rainier from Mount Tacoma...