Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...piers and buttresses of Manhattan Bridge the abused seamen dropped anchor in a more dubious appearing rendezvous already filled with many of their fellows. Being likewise thirsty their shadow followed. The newcomers were greeted variously. As they made their way into the group subtle, inference and thinly yelled insult were cast in their direction. The crew of a flag-ship always has a lot to live down. The badinage became more irritating; the rebuttal more spirited. Finally some intrepid soul had the temerity to observe that the crew of the Texas were fed in the manner of swine in comparison...
Nominee Robinson was inaccurate. Editor White was evasive. Last spring, prior to the Kansas City convention, Editor White wrote and published in his newspaper the following insult to Herbert Hoover...
Apparently there is a love that passes all understanding, which has its roots so-firmly enbedded in the strong soft of truth that superficial guy wises are but an undignified insult to an inherent stability. It is fortunate as well as gratifying that there is a spokesman for this loyalty who will reach those parts of the country which have hither to taken Harvard indifference literally...
...insults are deadlier than to tell a male that he is not a man. Yet last week precisely this insult was hurled at Italian bachelors and childless husbands by Benito Mussolini, begettor of a daughter, Edda, and three sons: Bruno, Vittorio, Romano...
Public libraries throughout the English speaking world were hard pressed to supply insult-snoopers with the poem. Excerpts...