Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somewhat commonplace conversation which took place, between the spectres and the condemned woman, even the gratuitous insult to the memory of the dead actor, fade into insignificance compared to the manner in which the tale is told. Here is the printing press used not for the dissemination of knowledge but for the spreading of blind terror and superstitions resorting not to mere vulgarity but taking a malicious advantage of ignorance and credulity. For one assumes that these editors are acquainted with their public, and have no intention of making themselves ridiculous in the eyes of their readers. If this assumption...
...representative of Stone & Webster admitted that the subway was no place for "fragile" people, but he blushed when the other charge was brought. A witness reported overhearing a middle aged woman who was pressed against a young dastard say "You wouldn't dare insult me, sir, if Jack were only here," but he denied saying that a young woman had sued the Inter-urban for breach of promise. No doubt the result will be as usual, simply that good newspaper editors will attribute the degeneracy of the tunnel system to modern youth and the generally low plane of New York...
...waiting for the test, required by law, to see if he was sane enough to be at large. Refusal of this petition did not daunt Mr. Remus. He received kisses and congratulations from the jurors in his cell and hysterically pledged the rest of his life to "stifling the insult which is upon our statutes known as the National Prohibition...
...Germany James Watson Gerard set out last week to test and strain the slowly and cautiously built up relations and good will now existing between the U. S. State Department and the Turkish Foreign Office. To Manhattan newsgatherers he charged that the Turkish Government has offered "an intolerable insult to the American people" by despatching to Washington as Ambassador His Excellency Monkhtar Bey, now enroute to his post...
...mere presence in Washington of so suave and polished a statesman as Ambassador Moukhtar Bey could constitute an "insult" was explained by Mr. Gerard on the grounds that Moukhtar Bey took part during 1919 in negotiations between the Turkish and Soviet Governments, which were followed by Armenian massacres and the partition of Armenia between Russia and Turkey, at a time, declared Mr. Gerard, when "the Armenian Republic was recognized by the allied and associated nations, including the United States...