Word: insult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majored in the glee club. He sang in concerts for 13 years until Gatti-Casazza, then serving his first season in the U. S., decided that he needed an extra bass. Witherspoon sang for eight years at the Met, retired to teach. During the hazardous season which preceded Samuel Insult's collapse, he directed the Chicago Civic Opera...
...territory with Wirephotos. Moreover, said he, the Wirephoto machines were bought with money ($432,000) that belonged to the whole AP -non-users of Wirephoto as well as users. Angrily to the defense rushed Publisher Joseph Ridder of the St. Paul Dispatch et al. Cried he: "An insult to the board of directors! . . . You get what you pay for m this world, and now we are asked to vote that forever after the AP may never improve its mat-service if it should cost more...
...States. The proposed bill intends that the Misses Dionne shall not be commercialized by the money grubbing vaudeville entrepreneurs of New York and Chicago. It is a direct national slap at the great acquisitive qualities which have maintained the Yankee at the top of the financial heap, and an insult to that maternal instinct which flames inherent in the breasts of all true Americans...
...first pair of shoes, pitched for his post team. At 18, he was hired to read gas meters for San Antonio Public Service Co., pitch for their baseball team. In an exhibition game against the Chicago White Sox he annoyed his opponents into giving him, as an insult, his nickname. The next year, he was discovered by scouts for the St. Louis Cardinals. After pitching one game for the Cardinals, he was sent to Houston for a year of seasoning, rejoined the team in 1932. For the last three years he has led the National League in strikeouts...
...advocate this now. Since the turn of the century Greek has been omitted as a requirement. Despite a bitter struggle, few people today dispute the wisdom of the step. No, the tide is sweeping on, and it is encouraging that it should. Latin's approaching defeat is not an insult to Caesar, but a salute to those educators who have definitely broadened the horizon of scholastic activity...