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...M.P.s were asleep at their posts, but Manny Shinwell was still mounted on the ramparts, hurling mud. "Representatives of the so-called gentlemanly party, who have lambasted members on this side . . . are now squealing because they are getting some of it back," he gloated. "It is impossible to insult some of them. If someone spat in their faces, they would think it was rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Disgusting, Cried a Tory | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...names of the University's Confederate dead beside those of the fallen "Boys in Blue." The suggestion began a violent row among alumni. Boston newspapers and the Alumni News were deluged with mail, mostly opposing the plan. The Cambridge Granddaughters of the American Revolution denounced the idea as an "insult to the founders of the building," and the matter was left unsettled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mem Hall Marks Its 75th Birthday; Cheers and Sneers Feature History | 11/15/1951 | See Source »

...Josephine Baker and her friends at the Stork Club. But I am equally appalled at their efforts to involve me in an incident in which I had no part." As a clincher, he added a letter from Walter White himself, doubting that Winchell "would be a party to any insult to human dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Winchell v. Baker | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...pleases, because generally no one keeps it from doing as it pleases. It is not rebellious-either against convention or instruction, the state or fate, Pop or Mom. Toward its parents, it exhibits an indulgent tolerance. As one young New Yorker put it with a shrug: "Why insult the folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...gross "violation of accepted academic practice and the traditions of the college . . ." The board's reply was to move the admiral's installation up a day earlier. To Dean Nelson Marshall, who pushed through the athletic investigation last spring, this was nothing less than a "studied insult to our faculty," and he resigned forthwith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Change of Command | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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