Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time has come to protest against scenery and production which are an insult alike to the eye and to the intelligence and which only help to make ridiculous the action of the opera. How may the artistic conscience of the authorities of Covent Garden be stirred...
...some 48 hours Adolf Hitler grew more and more excited about the "insult to German honor" which he saw in the coldness of Britain and France to all schemes for doing anything about the dent in the Leipzig. He was also emboldened by the daily bad news, from Russia, bitterest foe of Germany (see p. 18). Telling old von Neurath not to stir out of Berlin, Herr Hitler rasped orders which sent flashing off to London this stiff announcement: "The situation caused by the repeated attacks of the Reds in Spain on German warships does not allow the absence...
Last November President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, who had come up from the mines to become William Green's great foe as leader of the Committee for Industrial Organization, delivered a grave insult to Coshocton's most famed son. He impudently ordered William Green to show cause why he should not be expelled from the U. M. W. (TIME, Nov. 22). Realizing that under union rules they could try Billy Green if John L. Lewis pressed his expulsion order, the Morgan Run unionists became more interested in their local than they had been...
...Grand Old Party of Lincoln, McKinley and Harding last week received the ultimate insult. In the American Magazine shrewd old Charles ("Charley the Mike") Michelson, ace Democratic press-agent whose propagandizing since 1928 gets an owl's share of credit for returning his Party to power and keeping it there, published a straight-faced article titled My Advice...
...quote continues, "Princeton men are usually very sociable and pleasing. Williams men are very nice, though not as glamorous." The "snooping reporter" was baffled by the subtle mellowed-with-learning phrase "saturated with Boston," which the young girls applied to Harvard men, and unfortunately took it as a n insult, called it a "rather dubious rating...