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...Insult to India." Vague though it is, the No. 1 section of the Simon Report slams the door on St. Gandhi's demand for independence now. It declares that the goal of British policy must be: "Progressive realization of responsible government in British India as an integral part of the Empire...
...championship which heretofore has been bestowed on me." Hearing the Tammanyites guffaw, President-elect Prestes laughed politely, though he does not speak English. In Brazil, where public greetings are taken seriously and must embody the flower of courtesy, such a "joke" would have been an insult and President-elect Prestes, understanding, might not have laughed...
...Gold Star Mother who happens to be colored I wish to protest against the gratuitous insult in the attitude of the War Department in segregating colored Gold Star Mothers. . . . Twelve years after the Armistice the high principles of 1918 seem to have been forgotten. . . . We who gave and are colored are insulted by the implication that we are not fit persons to travel with other bereaved ones. . . . We are set aside, Jim Crowed, separated and insulted...
Alfonso's squirt-water insult to the future ruler of the nation which rules the waves. Wilhelm II, when Kaiser and All Highest War Lord, used to ask visiting royal males below the rank of Emperor to lean out a certain window, the better to watch troops parading below. When they did so the All Highest would give their posteriors a resounding, open-palm slap, would laugh and laugh...
Last week Senator Norris, perceiving a plot, moved to discharge the Shortridge Committee from further consideration of his measure. In parliamentary practice such a motion is the next thing to an insult to a committee's chairman, because, by its adoption, the chairman is rudely thrust aside and the measure buried in his committee may be yanked from beneath him to the Senate floor...