Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Would be an insult to a country town...
...uproar. A dozen fist fights ensued between the acrimonious Opposition and the enraged Government Parties. The noise was so appalling that Premier Herriot was twice obliged to leave the tribunal. Ballot boxes were hurled through the air. Peacemakers suffered grievous injuries of a temporary nature. No insult was insulting enough to be hurled at an opponent...
Robert Benchley's biting article in the last edition of "Life" on the depravity of audiences is a sincere and true a thing as has been written by a dramatic critic for some time. In saying "that the drama of today is not so much an insult to American womanhood as American womanhood is an insult to the drama of today", he has fitly summed up the deplorable intelligence of American audiences today. Just as there are shows which aim to be suggestive, there are audiences which go to the theatre only for filth. Honest dramatic effort is twisted...
...Insult...
...probable answers" to a crossword puzzle contest which was being conducted by the New York Evening Graphic (TIME, Feb. 2). The crossword answers were simple, legible. They required merely to be copied, forwarded to the editors of the Graphic'. they revealed not what sort of compliment, what sort of insult, was relished by the public of the Home News...