Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizen of the world as well as of the United States; that six hundred thousand people, die annually from diseases preventable by public cooperation; that lawless murder has killed in the last ten years more Americans than all five foreign wars. But the perpetrators of the childlike insult to adult intelligence are not interested in real problems, they want only to affright the masses and enhance the importance of their own position as defenders of those traditions which they tacitly assume the people are too stupid or too indifferent to preserve...
...public library. It is the private library of Harvard University used by a select group of fairly mature students possessed of good breeding and good sense. These men need no "great-grandmotherly" supervision of their morals and the attempt to infringe their independence of thought is an insult to their character...
...probable that the Japanese would soon have forgotten the so-called insult under ordinary circumstances, but this incident will only intensify the opposition. The popular mind will be more impressed by a concrete example of voluntary martyrdom than by countless exhortations as to the sanctity of National honor. It was no vulgar suicide that the patriot committed but the appeal through a recognized ritual to the sentiment of his countrymen. The appeal has not been forgotten, as the removal of his body to a more sacred resting place testifies. No one can deny that the memory of his deed will...
...publication of this gasconade was said to constitute an insult to France, but was not likely intended as such. No doubt Foreign Minister Eduard Benes, "apostle of peace," had his own reasons for sanctioning, if he did, this verbose horseplay...
...hundred percent Americans have flung another insult in the face of the alien. In solemn council the descendants of the ferocious Iroquois Indians of New York and Canada have decided to institute a movement to cast off the white man's God and the white man's civilization. When theatre crowds are bustling along the noisy streets of Buffalo and Montreal, the forests will look upon familiar scenes from the past. While sacred fires shed an eery glow upon the pines, red men will dance as of old, with mystic rite and stately tread, chanting their hymns to the Great...