Word: insultable
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...Egypt boiled with indignation last week at a Turkish insult to the fez, favorite headgear of Egypt's fat King Fuad. Years ago Turks abandoned the fez, the veil, the Arabic alphabet and polygamy by command of their progressive dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha. It was Kemal himself, according to irate Cairo newspapers last week, who insulted the fez on Turkey's Independence Day at a banquet tendered by the President at Angora to the diplomatic corps...
Last week the Egyptian Government reacted by sending a sharp note to Angora, demanded an apology from Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi who used to be an accoucheur. Expert at handling both excited women and excited governments, Dr. Rushdi suavely replied that there had been no insult. "The banquet hall was somewhat overheated," he alibied, "and President Kemal merely invited His Excellency the Egyptian Minister to remove his fez for his own greater comfort...
...impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack Whiting (America's Sweetheart). No impresarios were ever more feverishly active than droll, cow-eyed Jack Haley (Free For All), and hook-nosed Sid Silvers, who used to sit in an upper box and insult Phil Baker. Cropping out here & there in the proceedings is curvesome, loud-shouting Ethel Merman (Zimmerman...
...insult for the war veterans to demand that a generation which has lost patience with them pay their bills; for them to expect a nation, which is suffering as well, to subordinate itself to their wishes is insolence...
...they will also contend that his smartness is far from admirable. An incredible cross between Iowa's Brookhart, New York City's Jimmy Walker and Chicago's Big Bill Thompson, Democrat Long has developed a political technique in which he is too intelligent to believe himself. Impervious to insult, he knows the trick of playing politics in its rawest, crudest form and he plays it with a vim, dash and audacity that stagger men with public sensibilities...