Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anticipation called forth by the new beer bill. As a rule he eschews politics, but in a matter that comes so perilously close to home, he feels that he must speak out. To be brief, he considers the provision for 3.2 per cent peer the most piffling undersized insult ever thrown in the face of a great people, and he cannot understand the careless acclaim with which it has been accepted. He is driven to the mournful conclusion that Americans never had any discrimination in their taste for beer, or that they have forgotten it during their period...
...could not be Foreign Minister last week Herr Göring determined to act like one. When the Swedish Gothenburg Handelsoch Sjöfartstidning declared: "It is incomprehensible that the statesmen and Press of the world should be compelled to occupy themselves with this figure. Hitler is an insult." Fiery Hermann Göring promptly telegraphed the editor: "As a true friend of the Swedish people I see in such dirty expressions a serious danger to the friendly relations between our two peoples...
Said the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York: "For some reason which I think perfectly idiotic, there is a special sentiment against hanging women. I do wish the women of England would rise up and protest. I think it is a horrible insult to them. They ought to resent it with ferocity...
...Liberian Government cannot disregard this snub which it regards as an insult. It cannot find it possible to continue to afford Minister Mitchell the courtesy, official or unofficial, which he hitherto has enjoyed. Will the French Government convey this message to Washington...
...people of the West criticize, and in any case is very imprudent and uncalled for. The Tribune's editorial was a bit extreme, but did not call for an outburst of criticism, directed against the Mid-West, more violent than weighty. It seems to me that you should not insult that element of the student body which gives Harvard its national fame. If Harvard were merely a local Massachusetts institution, there would be no one to carry its policies and traditions to the rest of the country...