Word: insulted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This thesis is expounded: a man can win a woman only through the subtle workings of that mysterious thing called Romance; and Romance is incompatible with parental approval of the match. Ergo. Mr. Leon Janney, favored by the adenoidal mother and the crustacean father of the big-hipped , must insult, get drunk, and make himself generally obnoxious before he can win their disfavor and the hand of the sought-for female. It all works out. The insufferable suitor Bernie, with his green and Yellow roadster and his blatant familiarities, is foiled in the end, and the baby-faced Tommy gains...
...attempt to add insult to injury, Cantabrigian garagemen have called in the bilious gargoyles of the local constabulary to force the cars of students off streets; this duty they have accomplished with a maximum of asininity, officiousness, and impoliteness. Their excuse that the fire hazard makes it necessary to do this attains a truly remarkable degree of thinness when it is considered that cars can be parked on the streets all day long without creating any fire hazard. Realistically viewed, these activities of the police amount to nothing more nor less than a racketeering expedition for the benefit...
...wish to forge ahead in the work, and not to be held back by reviewing for a glorified quiz. The requirement that definite marks be turned in at these times to the Dean's office has only served in the past to annoy the professor, frighten the Freshman, and insult the Senior. By abolishing, moreover, this purely technical requirement, the instructor will be afforded far more freedom in running his course...
...doubtful whether this insult should be officially noticed but the Oklahoma State Senate, as an added tribute to the memory of the State's illustrious first governor, takes this occasion to give official denunciation to this infamous libel and an exposure of the author who gave it expression and the TIME, the magazine whose circulation depends upon its brazen iniquity...
...Never before was I so astonished in my life." he declared. "He said that I had presumed upon the affection of my colleagues, upon the esteem in which they held me. to insult them at my pleasure. I challenge any Senator here to search this Record in either house for 32 years to show where I ever initiated a dispute. I had the greatest esteem for the Senator from New Mexico. Why, I had so high a regard for his character and intelligence that I advocated his appointment to the President's Cabinet and urged him to accept...