Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stewart of Chicago is referred to not once but twice as "the hawk-nosed George Craig Stewart." For your journal to refer to the Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the seventh largest diocese of this Church in such a manner is more than a discourtesy. It is an insult, in vulgar and impertinent language, not only to the Bishop himself, but to the 55,000 or more members of his diocese, among whom I am one. It is intensely resented, and should be immediately apologized for by your office...
Although your reviewer probably used the word because it was spoken by Señora Moreno (Pauline Frederick) in the film, I believe it cannot rightly be applied to a California Indian woman. Certainly its use is resented and regarded as an insult by Indians of many tribes...
...presents the Brigadiers at work Building a Band, with words by the versatile singing maestro, Below the numbers in sequence and you'll learn exactly how it's done and if you don't have all the essential when you build your own hand you'll know that rhythm insult your business...
...Farley as a veritable monster of spoils-manship, a brass-conscienced destroyer of good government. Early in the campaign, Chairman Farley plaintively inquired:"We're both in the same racket. Why does he take digs at me?"Since then he has treated Chairman Hamilton to the ultimate political insult of silence, ignoring him with the contempt of a St. Bernard for a yapping Pekingese. Only when the Republican Chairman backed up his Vice-Presidential Nominee on the subject of banks and life insurance last fortnight did Boss Farley forget himself and roar:"Chairman Hamilton's statement...
...this campaign has been nearly as oblivious of John Hamilton's existence as of Alexander Hamilton's, broke down and roared: "Chairman Hamilton's statement . . . is just as ridiculous as other statements he has made during the last few weeks. His statement . . . is an insult to the intelligence of the American people...