Word: insultable
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...cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway's studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick on the trigger as ever, but hard-up instead of heroic, dissatisfied, bewildered, trapped. Although they start shooting at the hint of an insult, they, too, eat dirt, have their human share of humiliations in the pursuit of women and wealth...
Stuart Cloete's South African novel The Turning Wheels has sold 164,000 copies in the U. S., 50,000 in England, has been a best-seller in South Africa. But now no Cape Town bookseller has a copy. After it had been damned as an insult to Boer heroes, "filthy," discourteous, inaccurate, misleading to foreign readers, Minister of the Interior Stuttaford banned the book with a ruling that stopped importation of new copies. Claiming that the ban was political, with no legal excuse given, the English publishers announced: "The Government feared the loss in the forthcoming elections...
...think I have ceased to breed!" announced Humorist Herbert, 47, father of four. "But no one is going to ask me about that. The questions which census agents are to ask from door to door under this Nosey Parker bill are an insult to the nation's women...
...mother puzzled me, and how I loved her!" she declares. Recklessly extravagant in gaudy gimcracks, her mother saved wrapping paper and string, wrote letters on toilet paper. When she got a fresh air mania, she propped open all the doors, ate outdoors, snow notwithstanding. War came "as a personal insult." Her own War service consisted of taking in five wounded Belgians, whom she quickly turned out again as spies because they bored her. When her husband came home from the army with nerve enough to make a mild suggestion, she left him for good...
...comments of a number of visitors this weekend brought up the question of whether the enlightening sign on Boylston street across from Eliot House should be taken as praise or an insult to Harvard...