Word: insult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resent also your uncomic use of spaghetti to rhyme with Szigeti. I don't care if it does rhyme, or even if there was no other word to use. It is an insult to one of the finest artists of our times...
...telephone rang. An excited relative reported that the name "Riblet" had just been used (as the name of a schoolmarm just like Miss Riblet) on the Duffy's Tavern program (NBC, Fri., 8:30-9 p.m., E.S.T.). But even worse, Ed Gardner, who portrays Archie and makes insult his profitable stock in trade, had slurringly called this character "Old Pianolegs...
...Insult bordered on injury at the Law School Forum's second meeting, held Friday at six o'clock in New Lecture Hall, when Louis Waldman, labor lawyer, and Leadore Katz, general counsel for textile workers, challenged Dr. Emerson Schmidt of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in debate on the topic of "Labor and Management Today...
Next Playwright Anderson let fly in an ad in the Herald Tribune: "It is an insult to our theater that there should be so many incompetents and irresponsibles among [the reviewers]. ... Of late years all plays are passed on largely by a sort of Jukes family of journalism...
...only general strike in 1926, the nearest it had come to violent revolution in a century (and it was not very close), had shocked the easygoing Baldwin Government into banning political strikes. For all Labor, and especially for a bellicose trades unionist named Bevin, the Act was a standing insult...