Word: insulted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insult to the courage of Gold Star Mothers to insinuate that they whose Sons rest in "lovely cemeteries" would be willing to hold back any measure that may help to inculcate the grim actuality...
...statement, "pleasant features of war," is an insult to the minds and hearts of all civilized human beings...
...feel uncomfortable. From under Guerchard's very eyes necklaces and diamonds are whisked off a dozen ladies at a dance, and a whole great hall full of portraits of "ancestors bought cheap" and marble busts is robbed by a patrol of Arsene Lupin's police-clad confederates. The final insult to Guerchard occurs in the Louvre at a moment when it is surrounded by police. While Guerchard, twenty-five feet away, is standing in the very same room, the words "tut, tut", are scrawled across the front of a reproduction of the Mona Lisa, and the real one, locked...
This statement is a direct insult to the intelligence of the citizens of Charlotte, N. C. and I think it calls for an apology...
...State of Coahuila cinemas with religious themes were banned. Debate in the Federal Congress for a fortnight past has been painful to Christian ears. Repeatedly the Savior's Holy Mother was termed by Senators and Representatives "the so-called Virgin Mary." Last week the Congress added insult to injury by voting unanimously to change the names of two Mexico City suburbs. San Angel became Obregon, Congress substituting for the "Holy Angel" one-armed General Alvaro Obregon, famed champion of the Revolution and one of the most popular presidents Mexico has ever had, who was assassinated in San Angel...