Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living drama of Edward VIII. It cannot be staged in Britain as a play, although George Bernard Shaw hastily wrote last week for William Randolph Hearst a strongly pro-Mrs. Simpson and pro-Edward VIII playlet in which he flung at Prime Minister Baldwin the ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such as Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina* but a breathless cinema of swift pace...
Unhappily the discord was already far advanced. The entire German Press had been thundering for days that the Nobel award to a "traitor" was an "insult" to Germany, hinted strongly that Der Führer might break off diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Haakon VII. In Oslo the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Dr. Halvdan Koht, had taken such precautions as he could. When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, of which he was a member, appeared likely to pick Carl von Ossietzky, Dr. Koht resigned from the committee. Into his office last week raged the German Minister to Sweden, Prince Viktor...
...theory this might result in Mr. Green's losing the presidency of the A. F. of L., for a man must hold a union membership card to be an officer. In practice it was little more than an insult, for it would be several months before Mr. Green could be tried and finally ousted by his original union in Coshocton, Ohio. Meanwhile, he has ample opportunity to join another A. F. of L. union, in fact is already an honorary member of the musicians' union...
TIME, loath to insult any one of able Bishop George Craig Stewart's 37,779 communicants, still maintains its right to call a nose a nose...
These speculative fireworks were not, as some irreconcilables suggested, a studied Democratic attempt to heap insult on the injury of Alf Landon's defeat. Neither was it a rising vote in favor of the New Deal. It might have been explained by the hopes & fears of Inflation, since the election insured a continuation of the New Deal's cheap money policy. But on one day 14 issues of Government bonds made new highs since issuance-not precisely an inflationary portent. Still another explanation might have been the continuing flood of extra dividends flowing from efforts to escape...