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That age-old gratuitous insult to our Holy Father is not unknown among bitter anti-Catholics like the Orangemen of Belfast or renegade Catholics of whom Hitler and Goebbels are two up-to-the-minute specimens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...thin-skinned Lawyer Scott, able Catholic layman, good friend of Herbert Hoover, be less umbrageous. No insult to Catholics was intended by a good old English term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Neither I nor any other veteran of the First World War can quarrel honorably with the Colonel's sincere pacifism. But his choice of a simile, "We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife," seems to me singularly unhappy. It is an insult to the medical profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Byron refused to answer Lady Falkland but had her informed that she was mistaken and that if she continued to annoy him, he would insult her. Her final disillusioned blast: "Don't write to me. I will not open any letters from you-nor will I see you if you call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tin Box | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Ravenel was a goodhearted, long-winded, affable Unionist who predicted that the Southerners would fight like jackasses and heroes. Southerners, said he, were an honor to the fortitude, but an insult to the intelligence, of the human race. Why, sir, they would become an example in history of much that was great and of everything that was wrongheaded. Father and daughter argued without listening to each other. He said that once when he got hit on the head, after returning to New Orleans, he knew instantly he was in the South, like the shipwrecked sailor who knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel Romance | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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