Word: insultable
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Probably the greatest reason that Stanford argues for keeping the axe hidden is that her opponents could not Bear the cutting insult which would result from such uncalled for display. "There is too much to be risked for so little gain in taking the Axe out of the vault this year." Such a statement is almost an axiom. Whosever vault it is, the reaxion of California would be more than keen. Would men not spare their opponents' feelings, the situation might become un-Bearable...
...corresponding to the present date, the little college of Alfred, at that time unknown to the realm of sports writers, met the big Blue Team. The result of the mouse struggling with the mountain was inevitable: Yale ran up a score of sixty-six points, and, as if adding insult to injury, she sent in three complete teams to devour what was left of the carcass...
...proceed to insult West Point immediately after one of the most sportsmanlike, most brilliant, and most interesting games that Harvard has ever played against any college? Is it in the same spirit that made Harvard sever relations with Princeton? For since that time, to many of us Army has filled the gap left vacant in the "Big Three...
Such disrespect for the highest office of the land and for the gentleman who is so nobly filling it is a direct insult to the office, the man, and to each and every one of us who are your subscribers and readers...
Pandemonium. Amid cheers and jeers members of the Cabinet clustered round resigned President Alcala Zamora, arguing, pleading, coaxing him to reconsider. Alcala Zamora refused to budge so long as the insult to his honor stood. For 63 minutes Spain was without a President. Finally Insultor Jiminez was persuaded to resign his committee chairmanship. Mollified, Senor Alcala Zamora withdrew his Presidential resignation, gingerly sat down on the Government bench again...