Word: insult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fugues in the manner of Germany's Handel. He translated the Iliad and the-Odyssey into a breezy English that made the dons wince ("Calypso trembled with rage when she heard this. 'You gods,' she exclaimed, 'ought to be ashamed of yourselves' "), then added insult to injury by claiming that the "Homer" of the Odyssey was the pseudonym of an unknown Sicilian woman...
...United States and Great Britain have offered the French a seat on the council which will nominally supervise the trustees during the period before the Germans elect a government. This "concession' is practically an insult. The French see international control of the Ruhr going out of the window. They know that when the future German government takes over the industries--or leaves them in the hands of cartels--Germany will become the most powerful nation on the Continent, outside of Russia...
...sons of Elihu met their Waterloo on October 23 when they collided with a strong and underrated Vanderbilt eleven. The Commodore powerhouse, making the most of a potent single wing formation, thrashed the Bulldogs, 35-0. Dartmouth heaped insult on injury with a 41-14 triumph the following week. The victory-hungry Blue finally rose up and squashed Kings Point 52-0 and then went on to make a real fight of it against Princeton before bowing in the last quarter...
Sherwood would not deny his bias in favor of Roosevelt and Hopkins, yet it is a bias frequently dissolved by candor. There is enough in these pages to explain why Hopkins was feared and hated by men of all parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood quotes Hugh Johnson without disapproval : "He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous...
...says out loud what is often left unsaid-that in the U.S. "the big majority may feel that a Negro is a human being all right; but when you add that they want to see him treated fairly, you're wrong . . . The big majority does not want to insult or oppress him; but [it] has, in general, a poor opinion of him." Least of all, concludes Author Cozzens, does the big majority want the Negro to be fairly treated in wartime, because at heart it believes that in a time of national crisis it is proper for the weak...