Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court in Madrid last week went the case of five U. S. citizens, one a woman, who were jailed in Palma, Mallorca, last June for hitting and insulting a member of Spain's crack police, the Guardia Civil (TIME, July 24). All five had been acquitted last October by a military court. But custom required a military auditor to review and confirm such a verdict. It happened that the auditor was a monarchist and not above embarrassing the Republican government's diplomatic relations with the U. S. He appealed the case to the Supreme Court, irascibly demanding...
...firmly planted on her piano stool, tossing off encore after encore even after Richard M. Tobin came on stage to present her with a string of pearls from the Orchestra Association. Backstage Conductor Molinari snatched up his hat and overcoat, started for the door muttering: "It's an insult to the orchestra, the most confounded impertinence I ever heard of." It took great diplomacy to make him come back, finish the concert...
...years ago such a word as "bankster" would have been blasphemous. But not now. For these onetime gods of the U. S. scene twilight has come. If keepers of other people's money continue to lose caste at the present rate, "banker"' may some day be an insult. And some future Lytton Strachey will have a gay time humanizing the pre-1929 financiers to less than lifesize. Such a student of the period will list in his bibliography this lurid sketch of Author Winkler's on the Stillman family and what was once their National City Bank...
...else for in the event of a war with the Reich in the near future she certainly cannot be so rash as to believe that she could rely on the support of the Soviet. Russia has shown that she will accept a great deal in the way of downright insult from the Nazis; and if there is one thing which would be anathema to her now, it would be to become involved in a general European war. Consequently, any such struggle would almost certainly have its inception in France-German irritation, and there is no reason to think that Russia...
...Philadelphia ladies were speech less until their guests had left. Then broke out an indignant babble: "Mortifying! . . . Impudent! . . . Worst insult!" Said Mrs. George Horace Lorimer: "Miss Barrymore's last two plays have been unfortunately chosen and Philadelphians do not like them. Hence Miss Barrymore is resentful...