Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lived in the South to call "Uncle Tom's Cabin" literature of the South is an insult. In the first place the book isn't literature and the next place it isn't of the South. To call an I. W. W.'s interpretation of American life literature of America is rather more than a misnomen. A careful study of the circumstances which surrounded the issue of the book shows that its sole purpose was to stir up race and class hatred just the same as some organizations do today...
None of these conditions is inevitable. To be bored--or to assume boredom--is merely putting an insult upon your own intelligence in picking your company; the other two are merely the result of inexcusable mental laziness...
...insult to a man of his mettle (says Mr. Bell), with so many high crimes to his account, to hang him for having killed a common seaman on his own ship by banging him over the head with a bucket...
...irony of Fate; especially when, in the intense pre-examination era; Christopher Morley sees fit to ask, in his "Colyum" in the Evening Post (New York), "Why is it that a man who went to Harvard or Yale never forgets it?" To the undergraduate it seems almost like adding insult to injury to put forth such a question at the present time; there are certain days and nights indelibly impressed on our memories--and the shadow of the Widow we have always with us. The waters of Lethe are many miles away...
...community, State, and Nation". The obligation that can be measured in dollars is pretty worthless compared to one hundred per cent Americanism. For the disabled soldier, let us do everything within reason to help him to help himself; the others, whose service has been such that it is an insult to appraise it in cash, must expect a certain amount of hardship--war never comes without it; that is no reason for adding to the country's burden of taxation, at the same time pointing a finger of scorn at Americanism. If the Legion really stands for this...