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Word: insulter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quote remarks made by Rachel Kollock McDowell, who, according to the statement made therein, is a member of the Presbyterian Church, which are an insult to the Protestant Faith and the Presbyterian Church in particular. J. H. CORWIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...implications of this proviso struck the German Reichstag so forcibly that Deputies clutched their quaking midriffs and the whole chamber roared with Homeric laughter until tears of mirth glistened on many a cheek. Banging down his gavel President Göring boomed: "No Jew can insult Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Little Man, Big Doings | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...hear the heads of the various undergraduate organizations deliver eloquent orations, intermingled with the time-honored jokes of the occasion, on the many benefits accruing to the yearlings from participation in the speakers' specific activities. Following a custom sanctified by 300 classes of Harvard men, the speakers will mildly insult the newcomers, deliver a modicum of advice, and partake of light refreshments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduates at Brooks Address Freshmen Monday | 9/20/1935 | See Source »

...Gazeta Polska printed this comment on the deceit urged by Helmsman Dimitroff than the Soviet Government gave Jan Otmar Berson 72 hours in which to get out of Russia. Thundered the official Soviet newsorgan Pravda: "When some swindler takes advantage of Soviet hospitality and, despite warnings, dares to insult repeatedly and insolently the dignity of the Soviet people, then he is shown the gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Apes, Lies, Gate | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

Since Primo Carnera lost the world's heavyweight boxing championship, Italy has been pleased to insult him even more consistently than his detractors in the U. S. When Carnera playfully suggested that he must have been drugged before the fight in which he was a brave loser to Negro Joe Louis last June, the Italian Boxing Federation ordered him to stop talking about the bout. When Carnera applied for a passport to return to the U. S.. Achille ("Pantherman") Starace, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, ordered it canceled. Reason: "Carnera's showing is a dishonor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1935 | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

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