Word: insult
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Lucky Strike: "They insult my intelligence; too smug...
...death" because of his savage attacks on Broun. Soon after the review appeared. Pegler replied: "Like Broun, Reynolds was sloppy . . . his protuberant belly was filled with something else than guts . . . Reynolds was an absentee war correspondent . . . with the yellow streak glaring for the world to see." As an added insult, Pegler reported that Reynolds not only practiced nudism but also had the bad taste to propose marriage to Broun's wife on the way to Broun's grave...
...geological expedition into my interior," his way of explaining an operation for kidney stones. But Harry Truman was. Off the cuff, Harry cracked jokes for ten minutes and, turning serious, warned: "We can't have the friendship of the free world if we are going to insult our friends and allies...
Scelba's reply to this journalistic contumely was prompt and pertinent. "The inconceivable insult to the Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs in today's L'Unitá," he announced, "shows how far Italian Communism can go to act against the honor of its own government. This attack, which exceeds the limits allowed in political debate and which contains insults of unrepeatable vulgarity, has induced the Prime Minister to order that Communist newspapermen be no longer admitted to the offices of the Prime Minister or any other government ministry...
...Take a Harvard House, put the 200 most eccentric people in Cambridge in it, and you have an approximate picture of Bard College," has said one critic of the little college overlooking the Hudson. That most Bard students would not consider this an insult is perhaps the best proof of its truth...