Word: insult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter little that the message is an insult to many millions of American citizens. It may matter little that the statement is historically inaccurate. Luther was not a champion of the separation of church and state, but a most arbitrary defender of state absolutism...
...assignments slide before Midyears, or rather, before the next set of hours in December. For the upperclassman, taking four courses, immersed in his tutorial work and, in his Senior year, preparing for Divisionals, even perhaps, laying plans for his thesis, the whole mess of irritating formal quizzes is an insult to his supposed maturity and, what is considerably more important, an absolute injury to constant intelligent study...
...Insult. The spectacle of British actors speaking British-translated lines from a Dutch drama on an American stage is likely to become confusing. So marked are the types in Jan Fabricius' play that one feels the mummers have mislaid the Sam Browne belts, pith helmets and khaki drill uniforms of England's tropical troops, adorning themselves by some unfortunate mistake in the wardrobe department with the pot caps and gaiters of the Dutch East Indies colonial army. This is rather a weighty matter since the costuming in such an absurd play as Insult is a necessary adjunct to the silly...
Laid in the Dutch colonies of the Far East, Insult's main characters are: a testy old major, his fair-haired daughter-in-law, and the dashing half-caste officer who is a friend of her husband and in love with her. Enraged by the major, the half-caste strikes him, thereby making himself eligible for the death penalty-under military law. During a thunderstorm just prior to this occurrence the swart lieutenant had announced ominously: "The gods are angry tonight; they demand a sacrifice. . . . My native blood is strong within me?something is threatening." From the standpoint of audience...
Undoubtedly some will, consider it an insult to be held up by a customs inspection each time they leave the library, but, since all alike will receive this treatment, it must be taken with a spirit of cooperation. There were numerous complaints from members of large courses when books were missing from the shelves last year; this very group, comprising the majority of the men in college, can scarcely afford to object to what seems to be the only means of keeping the shelves intact...