Word: insulted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itself, Hurlbut issued the following statement: "Arrangements for our sixth Annual Ball have been going on for the past two months. After all our work we will not allow the National Student League to disturb our plans, in spite of the fact that our mere existence is an insult to them. The dance will be held Friday night as previously announced...
...painting] represents a most disgraceful, sordid, disreputable, drunken brawl, wherein apparently a number of enlisted men are consorting with a party of streetwalkers and denizens of the red-light district. This is an unwarranted insult . . . and evidently originated in the sordid, depraved imagination of someone who has no conception of actual conditions in our service...
...advantages of eating American meals in the company of Americans. Growing expansive over a sandwich he told tales of strange and unusual hardships among Turks and Greeks. To a passenger who laughingly remarked, "I would trade my money for yours," he retorted, "That's the greatest insult you could cast on me. I have repeatedly said I have sunk everything I had in my business and that's the truth." Once he grew gruff: when a fellow passenger tried to photograph him. "My mug is my own property," he snorted. "You have no right to photograph...
...reflection on Author Feuchtwanger's character, TIME'S description traced a resemblance, intended no insult. Let it be beaver or squirrel for those who prefer...
...Government was furious. Nobody knew that Samuel Insull still had $10.000, unless, perhaps, it was the Ministry of the Interior. Premier Tsaldaris promptly forced Minister of the Interior M. J. Mountsourides to resign. Greek public opinion was outraged at this slur on the nation's honor, at this insult to a friendly power. Admiral Hadjikyriakos. commander of the Greek navy, radioed the malodorous Maiotis to return to Piraeus instantly. The ship swung round. Samuel Insull, smiling happily under his new black mustache, thought he was bound for Abyssinia, one of the few spots in all the world where...