Word: insultable
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...harbor improvements at Guam. For three days Congressmen raged against this item. Their theme: the appropriation might offend Japan, cause war. The debate began on the eve of Washington's Birthday; speaker after speaker summoned the shade of the Father of his Country, keened over the insult to Japan (though amused Japanese politely protested that the U. S. had a perfect right to improve its own property), and the item was stricken from the bill...
...greater insult could have been hurled at the German Dictator than to compare him to the Jew Moses...
...still remained after the loyalists had stormed the trenches, two died in a hospital. President Epitacio Pessôa went to visit these two before they died. He praised them for their bravery, but lamented the fact that their cause had been unworthy of such sacrifice. Upon hearing this insult to his cause, one of the men, who had been wounded in the head by a bayonet, tore the bandages from his head and bled to death before he could be subdued...
Perhaps I've got too much confidence in my fellow-citizens, but it seems to me that we don't need this kind of trash to wake us up to the desirability of living in a democracy. These songs are a downright insult to whatever intelligence and taste you or I may have. As music they're worthless, and as far as patriotism is concerned, I've heard more convincing stuff from Father Coughlin's radio sermons. So the next time one of us is tempted to throw away a nickel to hear God Bless America on a juke...
Labor was first to explode publicly. Said Julius Hochman, general manager of potent I.L.G.W.U.'s Dress Joint Board (at a conference of labor and employers last week): "She insulted both our industry and the American women. . . . Unfortunately our industry is not organized sufficiently to meet such slurs, and there was no one to reply to this impudent insult." But there...