Word: insult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bench he was apt to be a little stiff, sometimes peppery. Once when a bootlegger thanked him for imposing a fine of only $50, Judge Ritter roared: "Don't thank me! To thank a court or a jury for doing its duty is an insult. Your fine is raised to $75." He was first investigated as the result of a resolution introduced in the House by Representative J. Mark Wilcox of Florida in 1933. Last week Congressman Wilcox was the only member of the Florida delegation to vote against the Ritter impeachment. Said he: "If [Ritter] were charged with...
Said Editor Yewdale: "We declined the gift because it was an insult; every clerk in the place got $2.50. In other words, it was too damn cheap, too damn low. It was an insult, not a gift...
...than "blood and race," the Nazi leader of Franconia, famed Julius Streicher, Boss of Nürnberg and pal of Adolph Hitler, came out with a ringing demand: "The new laws for the protection of German racial purity must be extended to dolls and wax figures. It is an insult to German womanhood that Jewish children should play with dolls having German faces. The Jews must be forced to manufacture dolls with definitely...
Canton's head man, Marshal Chen Chi-tang, seized the moment to insult Nanking and Generalissimo Chiang: "The Southeast will never witness a duplication of the spectacle of more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers evacuating an immense area without firing a shot in obedience to demands of the heads of the Japanese Army. . . . If Nanking orders the Southeast to agree to any unreasonable Japanese demands, we would refuse to obey and would stand up and tight for China's rights...
...well knows fact that this practice exists at Harvard on a smaller scale. Competition for the trade is a threat to the dignity and worth of the Harvard degree, an insult to the faculty for not knowing their students well enough to obviate the possibility of such thing, and an indication that students in American colleges today are not only willing to degrade themselves morally but are also willing to confess their unfitness for a college education...