Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...habit of falsifying the Record, even if the Senator from New Mexico is." "We are all fond of the Senator from Virginia. He takes advantage of that fact to insult his colleagues freely...
...British jails consisted in the inability of Horatio Bottomley to obtain his Pommery 1906 and other special privileges. Six dull years of neglect and increasing poverty were followed by sickness, the application for an old-age pension (a bill that Horatio Bottomley M.P. helped sponsor) and the ultimate insult, the offer of ?1 a week from Telephone Jack...
...Young Plan in 1929. In February B. I. S. directors so moved and appointed him (TIME. Feb. 27). But what about the sidestep of the U. S. from the gold standard? Last week's meeting silenced the quibblers and ratified Mr. Fraser's election. This was no insult to gold-standard France, simply a compliment to able Banker-Lawyer Fraser...
...Americans, and classes them with the Romans among the great builders of history." In Lima he found the people as climate-loyal as Californians; though in winter there is usually a misty drizzle, no one carries an umbrella. "You will even be treated as a Chilean-supreme insult! -if you carry one." In Peru "there is no public opinion, no consideration whatever of the general good." Siegfried did not care much for Buenos Aires, but of Rio de Janeiro he says: "If there are seven wonders in the world, this city is one of them!" Politically and economically, he does...
...These measures will restore the sound, healthy idea that a man should take a weapon in his hand to avenge an insult instead of going before a judge and having his honor measured by legal paragraphs, as under the Republic...