Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finds comfort in that always calm old friend, the dictionary. "Lampoon" comes from "lampoons," let us drink. Liquor in Cambridge seems to have degenerated. Lampy's ancient humor has become mere billingsgate. Hollis Holworthy, that sometime mirror of correctness and savoir faire, has gone "mucker." To bedaub guests with insult was worthy of that curious taste. When one remembers such urbane Lampooners as the distinguished lawyer and sometime Ambassador who wrote "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge," one is surprised by the difference of the modern tone. Such is the improving effect of intercollegiate sport upon manners and the sense...
...Hertzog was undoubtedly preoccupied instead last week, with the news that one of his chief "Nationalist" political henchmen, Dan Goetzee, had bolted to the Opposition, or loyalist "South African Party" of onetime (1919-24) South African Premier General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Bolter Goetzee, ever a law unto himself, added insult to injury by proclaiming that Premier Hertzog is taking the wrong tack at London by hinting at "secession" and will find his Cabinet threatened on his return to Cape Town...
...weks ago the CRIMSON upon a Monday morning sent forth an edition containing in an inconspicuous but definitely discernable place an editorial on the Yale Chapel. The editorial was written, if the whole truth must appear, by a candidate, vised by a segued under editor and allowed to insult, as well the intelligence and taste of Harvard, as well the intelligence and taste of Harvard, as that of Yale. The Daily News did not hesitate to fly, even at the expense of grammar, in the face of the CRIMSON with a violent editorial closing with a prayer of thanksgiving that...
...auto, that emblem of our mechanical age, comes in now and again for its due share of blame for almost any heinous insult to morals that passing fancy chooses to decry. And now its potentialities for destroying the fruitful years of the flower of American culture--the college man--are again pointed out. Dean of Men, Goodnight, of the University of Wisconsin has recently made a passionate plea to fathers against this vile filcher of the young man's time and money. He is evidently of the impression that the paths of autos lead but to the roadhouse where w.ne...
...hundred and fifty year is a respectable age; it demands either adequate recognition or honorable silence. But a Coney Island holiday lasting for months and drooling away into a hug loss for all concerned is an insult...