Word: insult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little boardinghouse keeper from Leaping Rock, Nevada, and to open it planned the most elaborate ball of the season. But the Major was a crude fellow in the eyes of his neighbors and, when the night of the ball arrived, the Four Hundred cut him dead. Furious at the insult to his wife, the Major proceeded to ruin the remiss millionaires, one by one. When Susie discovered that one of them had resorted to suicide, she not only determined to halt her husband's vengeful program but succeeded, thanks to some pretty shrewd manipulation of the stockmarket...
...Japanese girls, growing up brings no freedom. But a Japanese boy is allowed some practice in aggression. "The male world gives orders. . . . The female world is loved, ill-treated and despised." At four, a boy attains the privilege of dominating all women, including his mother; he may insult or bite her with impunity; her only defenses are cajolery and bribery...
When Leopold Stokowski is not making curious things happen, they are often being made to happen to him. Last week the picturesque maestro's Mexican tour continued in an ornate fuss & feathers of insult and apology. He had already scared the wits out of Oaxaca with a rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with offstage sound effects of cannonading (TIME, May 29). Last week it was something else...
...Last night in a poker session Major Bong arrived with his .32-caliber revolver, wordlessly laid it on the table, then added insult to injury by calmly beating some self-designated 'experts'. . . . 'Half the fun of a poker game is griping,' the ace commented, laying down a full house...
This was a diplomatic insult to which the U.S. State Department had no ready reply. In all its implications, it was also a chilly lesson in the nature of the hostilities and problems which are now facing the U.S. in much of Latin America...