Word: insultable
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From a world quick to conclude that Art had been insulted, came expressions of indignation. Students at the Bologna Conservatory of Music shouted Evviva Toscanini! and were at once clapped into jail. In Berlin, Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra cried: "The Fascists will kill that man yet. He is so sensitive that he will never be able to stand the shock!" Sergei Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony cancelled a contract to conduct a June festival at La Scala in Milan, called the incident ''an insult not only to him but to artists generally!" Hastening from Zurich...
...Niceto took this as a personal insult. He renounced the Dictatorship and King Alfonso to boot, pledged himself and his entire fortune to the Republican cause. Last December he was jailed as an instigator of the abortive Jaca revolution (TIME, Dec. 15). Released late in March, he became Provisional President of Spain three weeks later. World chancellories last week counted up the results of his first ten days in office...
...thank me!" roared Judge Halsted L. Ritter. "To thank a court or jury for doing its duty is an insult. Your fine is raised...
...tally. Iglehart added the third Yale score in the second canto when he soloed through the entire Harvard team and finally drew Ellis out of the net and put the puck in. McLennan scored the fourth goal in the last seconds of the period while Todd added the insult just two seconds before the final whistle blew...
Comments on the encyclical were not long in forthcoming. Onetime Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, champion of companionate marriage: "The rule proposed by the Pope is respected only by domestic animals." Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth control apostle: ". . . An insult to the intelligence of women." Rt. Rev. Benjamin Franklin Price Ivins, bishop coadjutor of Milwaukee (Episcopal): "Either birth control is generally practiced in America, or most women are incapable of motherhood." Humanist Charles Francis Potter: ". . . The new generation of Roman Catholics is quietly disregarding the teachings of that Church about birth control. There are fifty-four clinics in the United States giving...