Word: insult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...humor, with no regard for the truth, was inexcusable. Your apology was less than frank. Public cynicism toward the press no doubt stems from the fact that papers like TIME, when departing from truth in order to wisecrack, are disinclined to make the apology as broad as the original insult; thus you compound the evil. As friend and attorney for Mr. Hoover I write to say that your crack could have no result but to undermine the standing of J. Edgar Hoover as a unique, law-enforcing official, one who has impressed on our folkways a concept of law & order...
...Elwyn, B. for Brooks), comes equipped with a slogan: "Federalists of the world, unite!" And he waves a flag, "a wild flag, [the flower] Iris tectorum." In a Whitean dream a Chinese delegate says: "I propose all countries adopt it, so that it will be impossible for us to insult each other's flag." Lest all this seem too whimsical (Author White made his reputation as a humorist) the tough-minded reader is offered a working policy: "We propose that it shall be the policy of the United States to bring to an end the use of policy...
...little man"? No man is little. To be called such is an insult to his integrity as an individual as well as to his self-respect. Part of our national weakness today is a collective "little man" philosophy, a philosophy under which men have been taught that the government will care for them whether they work or not. Where the little man did not exist, the Democratic Administration created him for its political ends, and then championed...
This conscious effort to please the bottom level of U.S. audience intelligence is made with assurance and .great technical competence. The result is so relaxing to eye, ear and brain that millions of moviegoers will not know that they are suffering a carefully studied insult...
...stalwart gang of some 60 Harvards added insult to injury after the Princeton squeaker last Saturday, when they outfought about 300 Nassau followers in a battle for the goalposts. The Princeton Freshmen had been instructed the preceding night to defend the sacred posts with their very lives in the event of a Crimson victory, but the brothers, were unable to withstand a determined Harvard line...