Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish shops. Placards announcing 'Jews not wanted' are displayed in cafés and restaurants. 'Jewish students enter here at their own risk,' reads a notice at the door of the Technical School. Jews cannot attend the theatre, opera or motion pictures without risk of insult. Oldtime friends are afraid to visit or greet them in the street. Nowhere else are they so cut off from normal life or subjected to such economic boycott and social ostracism...
...careful examination of the facts leading up to the Borah resolution shows little justification for our attitude. On one hand we openly insult the Mexican Government by senatorial examination of their policy, and on the other hand Ambassador Daniels advances the cause of socialistic education in Mexico by openly commending recent speeches made by the President of Mexico favoring a socialistic State. Mr. Daniels personally is a very charming man. He possesses real gifts as a journalist and a politician, but the situation south of the Rio Grande calls for a genuine diplomat of the highest order, and unfortunately...
...consider that an insult...
...pious" are of course a group to be derided. The catch is that the exclusion of religious instruction, as you well know, makes impossible the provision of truthful, scientific, or rational answers. It is exactly parallel to a decree making two times two equal five, and any such insult to the intelligence of the thinking men of the world should be opposed and resented...
...with his tiny wife. Bailey Walsh goes to purchase Jumbo from the London Zoo. When he returns with Jenny Lind (Virginia Bruce) instead, Barnum's troubles start. A Swedish masseur teaches him a toast. When he uses it at a banquet, Jenny Lind thinks he is trying to insult her. She scuttles back to Sweden, the neglected museum goes bankrupt, and Barnum is forlornly slouching on a park bench when his old friend General Thumb discovers...