Word: insult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family life, which adorned that evening like a page out of Lafcadio Hearn. It had not altered anything else, either. Late in the evening, after a good deal of pleasant enough talk, and apropos nothing, the surgeon "said quietly that he wished his country would wipe off the insult, declare war on mine. I was amazed. I asked, 'What insult?' He answered, 'The insult of the Exclusion...
...liquors was a decidedly pink drink, bubbled up in the Times's drama department, where he acquired an unsmiling assistant named George S. Kaufman. When Kaufman eventually satirized him as the waspish subject of The Man Who Came to Dinner, Woollcott declared: "The thing's a terrible insult and I've decided to swallow...
Barnes, the South Philadelphia boy who invented Argyrol, made millions, and settled down to insult Philadelphia society and accumulate paintings, sometimes gets a yen for a philosopher. His favorite, and frequent drinking companion, is John Dewey. In 1940, blaming the C.C.N.Y. furor on "bigoted authoritarians," Barnes hired Bertrand Russell for the Barnes Foundation, an art school connected with the gallery...
...religious perceptions, useful as far as they go, are rudimentary. His prose ranges between brilliant neo-Menckenism and embarrassing vulgarity. Too often, when he intends to insult the reader's stupidity, he insults his intelligence instead. But Author Wylie's book might be of far greater importance than its own intrinsic worth if readers in any appreciable numbers would act seriously on his old and central recommendation-"know thyself"-as well as on a thing he fails to recommend-the study of those quieter, subtler, maturer diagnosticians who are casing the same field...
Styled by Republicans as "...an insult to the Australians..." the nomination of Edward J. Flynn as United States Minister to Australia has implications far more serious than mere inter-party knife-throwing. Lacking both the background and the training necessary for delicate diplomacy, Flynn owes his appointment to peculiar political circumstances. These circumstances make him much less than satisfactory to the Democratic Party of which he is chairman. But they do little to make him the ideal successor of the current minister, Nelson Johnson, and they may well serve to disrupt long-sought unity at home and abroad...