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Word: insulted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think I have ceased to breed!" announced Humorist Herbert, 47, father of four. "But no one is going to ask me about that. The questions which census agents are to ask from door to door under this Nosey Parker bill are an insult to the nation's women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Disobedient Herbert | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...comments of a number of visitors this weekend brought up the question of whether the enlightening sign on Boylston street across from Eliot House should be taken as praise or an insult to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

...light streaks widened in the east, the young Armenian climbed the scaffold, calmly told his grim-faced audience that "an insult motivated my crime." In an ironic gesture he willed the revolver he used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Down with Washington! | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Scrap dealers consider it an insult to be called junkmen, have their own national trade body, the Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel, Inc. Nonspecialist dealers who are equally touchy are organized in the National Association of Waste Materials Dealers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Junk | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...uncle turned to him with a look approaching condescension and a tone faintly suggestive of superior indifference, "YOU went to Yale? My, my, I am not sure if that is an insult to you or one to Yale!" His cousin was biting his lip to make his retort sharper when the Vagabond spoke: "Gentlemen, I must stop here a minute to fetch my girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

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