Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insult for the war veterans to demand that a generation which has lost patience with them pay their bills; for them to expect a nation, which is suffering as well, to subordinate itself to their wishes is insolence...
...they will also contend that his smartness is far from admirable. An incredible cross between Iowa's Brookhart, New York City's Jimmy Walker and Chicago's Big Bill Thompson, Democrat Long has developed a political technique in which he is too intelligent to believe himself. Impervious to insult, he knows the trick of playing politics in its rawest, crudest form and he plays it with a vim, dash and audacity that stagger men with public sensibilities...
...went to Siam. This time they go to Nassau, where Mary Hilliard's one-time husband, Philip Graves (Donald Macdonald), is trying to persuade fresh, serious Claire Windrew (Sally Bates) to break her engagement and marry him. Hilliard & Dale proceed to the hilarious business of disrupting the household, insulting everybody with epigrams. Particularly do they insult stodgy Mrs. Windrew (Charlotte Granville). Mary Hilliard rifles her liquor cabinet ("White Rock! My favorite drink!"). She picks her perennial roses ("It'll be next year before you know it"). She breaks up her jigsaw puzzle. To make Mrs. Windrew like Philip...
...Santiago's Presidential Palace to watch Provisional President Carlos Davila sign something. The world learned only last week what it was that he signed: Chile's long discussed Emergency Plan by which the Davila Government means to embark on a program of "sane" state Socialism. Nothing could insult President Davila more than to call the plan hastily conceived. An editor who dubbed it "Chile's Five-Minute Plan" was promptly flung into jail last week...
...threat of a duel was injected by General Balbo who lisped fiercely: "I consider this a personal insult which Signor Costamagna is at liberty to reply to in his own manner...