Word: insulted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vancouver's most useful institution") was publishing serially The Strange Death of President Harding by onetime Federal Sleuth Gaston B. Means (TIME, March 31). The U. S. Consul General was besieged with outraged demands for formal action. One Californian wired to Senator Hiram Johnson urging "proper protest against . . . insult." Nothing happened. The Strange Death of President Harding was widely circulated and reported in the U. S. last spring. But the U. S. press, while feeling obliged to report the book's horrid insinuation that Mrs. Harding did away with her husband, at the same time took pains...
...professional man or an artist. Such a feeling is very English and almost impossible to explain to a foreigner, but Whistler had absorbed it ... completely. ... A thousand guineas for his work might have sent him away not too dissatisfied, but a thousand pounds seemed to him a deliberate insult...
Under the new conditions incidental to the House Plan the last excuse for the maintenance of such restrictions disappears. Their further retention on any grounds other than pure mid-Victorian conservatism, must imply a belief on the part of the authorities which is an insult to the character of the student body. Sincerely yours. Emile B. Smullyan...
...Actions Committee planned for November 4 in London. To cheer President Weizmann came a fighting letter from Great Britain's richest Jewish industrialist, Baron Melchett, who also resigned his chairmanships of the Council and Political Committee of the Jewish Agency. Calling the Passfield Declaration a "grotesque travesty ... an insult to the intelligence of Jewry," he wrote with cold fury: "It is impossible to discover what rights the Jews in or out of Palestine are to have in the future, or in what way they can be made to feel they have any rights at all in that country...
...theatrical season 87% of the legitimate productions and 69% of the musical attractions failed. No indication of a lowering of this mortality rate appeared last week. The following presentations have opened and closed since Oct. 1: Luana, Symphony in Two Flats, Nina Rosa, With Privileges, The Rhapsody, Insult, The Cinderelative, A Farewell to Arms, Nine Till Six, Mr. Gilhooley, Roadside, Stepsisters of War, Marigold, Blind Mice, London Calling...