Word: insult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfonso's squirt-water insult to the future ruler of the nation which rules the waves. Wilhelm II, when Kaiser and All Highest War Lord, used to ask visiting royal males below the rank of Emperor to lean out a certain window, the better to watch troops parading below. When they did so the All Highest would give their posteriors a resounding, open-palm slap, would laugh and laugh...
Last week Senator Norris, perceiving a plot, moved to discharge the Shortridge Committee from further consideration of his measure. In parliamentary practice such a motion is the next thing to an insult to a committee's chairman, because, by its adoption, the chairman is rudely thrust aside and the measure buried in his committee may be yanked from beneath him to the Senate floor...
...insult to every subscriber and an outrage to public decency; and I have a mighty good notion to tell you that you need not send another copy of your otherwise good magazine to me. I think the reputation of your publication has dropped at least no per cent...
Entering a Madrid cafe one evening last fortnight, Lieutenant Miguel Primo de Rivera bustled up to General Queipo de Llano, recently author of an "insulting" letter to the onetime Dictator. Serene, the General sat at a corner table, elegantly sipping deviled coffee (with brandy), secure in the belief that a mere lieutenant would not dare violently to resent the insult of a general...
...have patience, but I haven't. But what I want to ask General Smuts is what he meant when he associated the Negro with the jackass-I mean the ass -what he meant when he called us 'docile animals.' . . . I'm sure no insult was meant but when he used those words, it hurt. It cut like a two-edged sword through the heart of every Negro and we Negroes would leave this hall with a bad taste in our mouth if no explanation was forthcoming...