Word: insulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small comfort to be told that the intensity of competition demands that these consultations with the muse, or fury, of football be held in solitude. And insult is added to injury by the honeyed information that on the Thursday before the Yale game the team will run through signals before the public eye. It is but a hollow victory when one's champion upon the field of battle loses all human interest behind a mask of secret practice...
...passionate defense of "our team." Italian editors shrieked to highest heaven that the Austrian team had "played foul," that the flag of Italy had not floated over the stadium, and that the Austrian brass band had played the old Italian royal hymn-obviously a gross insult to Fascisti who never sing anything except their own anthem, "Youth! Youth! Springtime of Beauty!" The umpire of the match, an Englishman, disqualified two Italians for roughness. Broken lanyards prevented the hoisting of the Italian flag. The Austrian bandmaster had no Fascist sheet music, supposed that the Italian royal anthem was the correct thing...
Hurling a shower of large mangel-wurzels (cow beets) on the stage, the students cried: "This is an insult to economic distress in Croatia!" "Long live Croatian culture!" "Down with such vulgarity...
...letter received lately by many a minister in the East. One minister, an Episcopalian, at once sat down and wrote indignantly to The Churchman (liberal weekly): "This sort of thing is an insult to the ministry." Editorialized The Churchman: "We agree...
...Insult-Extraordinary, you repair again to the Insulter's home, and standing upon the door sill, disembowel yourself with a sharp knife. This is the final retort (hara-kiri), to which there can be no reply...