Word: insulted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dissension within the Liberal Club should have come so near to precipitating a difficult situation. Certainly the Club has shown in its activity this year that it intends to reinforce the ideals of toleration upon which it was founded. Those ideals, in the past, have never envisaged heckling and insult. There are channels for the expression of Communist opinion; there is the National Students' League, and there are within the University numerous study groups dedicated to the principles of the Third International. But really liberal thought must condemn any attempt by this opinion to jeopardize the external relations...
...Republican Party turned its back on the farmers at Kansas City," he charged, switching his allegiance to the Brown Derby, "and added insult to injury by nominating the arch-enemy of a square deal for American agriculture...
...trouble began last August when Governor Gore was quoted as saying that all officials whom he might appoint would have to present undated resignations in advance (TIME, Aug. 28). This the Liberals considered an unprecedented insult to Puerto Rican dignity. Antonio R. Barcelo, politically ambitious president of the Liberal Party, promptly withdrew his list of suggested candidates, went into full opposition to the Gore regime. Governor Gore said he had never actually requested any undated resignations, accused Dr. Barcelo of circulating the story as a poli ical subterfuge. Dr. Barcelo's answer was an editorial in his La Democracia...
...month at Havre de Grace, Sportsman Whitney welcomed the challenge. He stipulated, however, that Winooka should first prove himself "against one or more of our first-class Eastern horses . . in order to show the public his real quality." Manager Naylor was incensed at what he took as a "direct insult to Australian racing." but agreed to enter Winooka at Laurel last week. Meanwhile he continued negotiations over weights and distances for the prospective match with Equipoise. Mr. Whitney consented to race at seven furlongs (seven-eighths of a mile) instead of a mile, and for cash instead of a trophy...
...liner. Some of the other tales: A terrified adolescent tries to castrate himself with a razor. Two lovers part when the girl turns Lesbian. The manager of a Mexican matador who is a miser and a pervert finally gets fed up with his stinginess, but is unable to insult him. A shell-shocked U. S. soldier horrifies his Italian brothers-in-arms by getting the horrors in public. A little boy with fever lies waiting for death all day because he does not know the difference between Fahrenheit and Centigrade...