Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over President Sproul took pen & paper, had it out with Miss Ijams. No punch-puller, he wrote to the Daily Californian, student newspaper: "We are misrepresented by ill-advised zealots who lack balance wheels and by one or two alumni who are so unbelievably boorish as to insult publicly a guest of the university in mere pride of personal opinion...
...less outfight, a resolute adversary like Japan. With boundless insolence the yellow men, as they bought Stalin's railway for a song last week, actually egged their puppet Emperor of Manchukuo to extend official recognition to the Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Throne of Russia. One more insult to Stalin & Co. came when Emperor Kang Te announced that while all Red Russian employes of the C. E. R. are to be fired, all its White Russian employes may keep their jobs...
...National Student League jumped to the rescue. Tearing the veil of an innocent gesture from Germany's face, it bared the deed in all its enormity. It discovered an insult and a degradation. Harvard is protected...
...However, the swastika wreath is not an insult to the Harvard Chapel alone, it is a brazen and sneering affront to the entire University, for the wreath is an emblem of a regime which has terrorized the students and professors of Germany, and which has reduced the splendid German national culture to an incoherent barbarism. That the friends and representatives of the Hitler government should dare to lay this swastika wreath in the name of peace, at the precise moment when Hitler, throwing aside all pretense, is arming his enslaved nation to the teeth, is a glaring example...
Studying the White Paper they decided that some kind of English insult was evidently being offered to Germany prior to the arrival in Berlin of British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon at the Realm-leader's pressing invitation (TIME, March 11). Nazi honor, they saw, must be satisfied by offering insult for insult. Soon an urgent cable informed Sir John Simon that his visit must be canceled "due to a slight cold with great hoarseness" contracted by Der Reichsführer. The German cancellation carried no expression of regret, no invitation for a later date. To rub in this...