Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absorb what is not ours or to make ourselves loved by those who do not love us? ... I am convinced that once the question of the Saar, which is German,* is settled there will be absolutely nothing which can estrange France and Germany. Those who say I want war insult me. I am not that sort...
...Tracy episode kindled into flame bad feeling already caused by complaints that Viva Villa was rowdily derogatory to revolutionary Mexico. Nellie Campobello, adopted daughter of the late Pancho Villa, now director of the dance department of the public education ministry, called the film an insult to Mexico" because one scene in it depicted her father experimenting with a civilized bathroom as though he had never seen one before...
...President Abelardo Rodriguez, Vice President Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promptly wired his apologies: "The insult offered by this actor to the Mexican cadet corps has embarrassed and shocked the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer organization fully as deeply as it has the Mexican people. As a result of this actor's deplorable behavior, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has removed him . . . not only from Viva Villa but . . . canceled his long term contract...
...blue-jerseyed horde from New Haven sweeps down on Cambridge this afternoon intent on taking John Harvard into camp for the third successive time, and in adding insult to injury by denying the present Crimson coaching regime a single victory in its three years in office. And no amount of apathy toward the team by Harvard undergraduates can stem the excitement that is going the rounds for this contest. Not for some time has there been so much doubt as to the outcome. That is, the sports-writers have usually been certain before the game that their guess would come...
There was intended no insult to the guests of Harvard College. We are sure that our activities could be construed as conveying insult only by such intolerable inferences and misguided perversions of fact as you have seen fit to print. One obtains the impression from your editorial tone that liberalism is synonymous with passive indifference to the menaces of war which are being brought home to every liberal minded student in every national development. We need only point to Fascist Germany, Imperialist Japan, and the armament competitions in the face of disarmament conferences. To us Armistice Day is significant time...