Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They agree, while traveling, to stay in their seats in the Pullman, and not to walk out onto the back platform and wave their handkerchiefs idiotically at the yokels." (Insult to Mr. Harding...
...Neither of them is an enthusiastic reader of detective stories." (Insult to ex-President Wilson...
...with a fighting code which demanded just one retaliation for every slur on a man's name, home or country, namely, immediate and direct action with ax, gun, or flst. Where each man who was not a coward was considered equal to his neighbor, there was no discounting an insult because of the stupidity or lack of breeding in the man responsible for it. An earlier and more polished society which recognized the duelling code distinguished between affronts coming from a "gentleman", and those arising from a boorish and Lefthanded mentality...
...reveal also as little tact as the blindest radicalism: Pankhurst's window smashing, Irish guerilla warfare or I. W. W. bomb plots. In accepting the challenge the college man loses all the advantage which his education gives him, he drops his foil of polite discussion for the cudgel of insult and calumny...
...former piracy by Rosamund's young brother, Peter, and by Sir John Killigrew, who also wishes to marry Rosamund. Of course the great Sir Walter Raleigh and Hawkins had in their time been pirates and knighted for it by Queen Elizabeth; but Sir Oliver rightly resents the insult and nearly kills Sir John in a duel. Unfortunately young Lionel Tressilian, a scapegrace, kills Peter Godolphin in a drunken duel. Sir Oliver shelters his brother and takes the blame, and Rosamund believes him guilty...