Word: insultable
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...Insult. The spectacle of British actors speaking British-translated lines from a Dutch drama on an American stage is likely to become confusing. So marked are the types in Jan Fabricius' play that one feels the mummers have mislaid the Sam Browne belts, pith helmets and khaki drill uniforms of England's tropical troops, adorning themselves by some unfortunate mistake in the wardrobe department with the pot caps and gaiters of the Dutch East Indies colonial army. This is rather a weighty matter since the costuming in such an absurd play as Insult is a necessary adjunct to the silly...
Laid in the Dutch colonies of the Far East, Insult's main characters are: a testy old major, his fair-haired daughter-in-law, and the dashing half-caste officer who is a friend of her husband and in love with her. Enraged by the major, the half-caste strikes him, thereby making himself eligible for the death penalty-under military law. During a thunderstorm just prior to this occurrence the swart lieutenant had announced ominously: "The gods are angry tonight; they demand a sacrifice. . . . My native blood is strong within me?something is threatening." From the standpoint of audience...
Undoubtedly some will, consider it an insult to be held up by a customs inspection each time they leave the library, but, since all alike will receive this treatment, it must be taken with a spirit of cooperation. There were numerous complaints from members of large courses when books were missing from the shelves last year; this very group, comprising the majority of the men in college, can scarcely afford to object to what seems to be the only means of keeping the shelves intact...
...friendly office Mr. Insull had tried to perform for acquaintances from home, or if it had been an impetuous idea of his own, Mr. Insult's visit did his friends and himself little good. For Chairman Oscar Charles Merrill and Vice Chairman Henry J. Pierce (Electric Bond & Share) of the U. S. delegation both speedily announced that they would never presume to ask Ambassador Sackett to alter his speech, nor would they condone any one else so presuming. Whereupon Mr. Insull called again at the Embassy. Soon it was announced the speech would be delivered as written. Mr. Insull...
...quarrel: the perambulating Fascist theatre, grandiloquently known as "Car of Thespis." From distant Sardinia word reached the Vatican last week that the Car of Thespis was not only performing the works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most holy Feast of the Body of Christ, Corpus Christi, a legal holiday in all Latin countries...