Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much for England. Yet with an almost vengeful relentlessness he continues to harry Edward, forbidding him to live here or there, refusing him an income from the public funds, fighting to keep Edward's family from his wedding. Now the Prime Minister wishes to add insult to intolerance by refusing to Mrs. Simpson the title the Duke of Windsor's wife would ordinarily expect. Americans will not understand this move who have been taught to believe that the virtue of the English is their sense of fairness and good humor and their reluctance to hurt a man when...
...advice of his father, Leo F. Curley has resigned as a student at the Harvard Law School, it was revealed by former Governor Curley last night. The cause of resignation came when a professor at the School subjected the Curley regime to "an unwarranted and contemptible insult...
...gallon, although most State taxes are only 3 ?or 4? per gallon. On top of that there is a Federal tax of 1? per gallon, making a total direct tax on gasoline sold in Hancock County of 10? or about 100% of its wholesale price. To add insult to injury Mississippi imposes a State sales tax which does not exempt the already heavily taxed gasoline, as is the practice in almost all the States having sales taxes...
Lawyer Timothy Pfeiffer (to his client) : I don't think he intended to insult...
Wilbur Burton Foshay, whose $50,000,000 Northwestern utilities empire ranked second only to Samuel Insult's, was released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving five years of a 15-year term for mail fraud, straggled home to Minneapolis to look for a job, had to ask permis-ion to step on the African mahogany floors in his former office in the Foshay Tower. "Rebuild my empire? God. man, how can I?" moaned he. "I haven't a penny. Not one red cent...