Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defeated before the Commission, Oswald Francis Schuette, RPA lobbyist, exclaimed: "An insult to the intelligence of Congress! ... It would be absurd to take the matter to the courts. Congress can work faster than the courts in protecting radio against this monopoly...
...most European countries to call a man a camel (French chameau, German Kamel) is merely to call him "stupid" or a "simp." Most insulting in French or German are compounds of animal names such as "You camel-toad-elephant-crocodile-rat-pig!" If a one-word insult is wanted it is hard to do better in French than saligod (filthy beast), in German, schweinpelz (filthy beast...
From a world quick to conclude that Art had been insulted, came expressions of indignation. Students at the Bologna Conservatory of Music shouted Evviva Toscanini! and were at once clapped into jail. In Berlin, Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra cried: "The Fascists will kill that man yet. He is so sensitive that he will never be able to stand the shock!" Sergei Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony cancelled a contract to conduct a June festival at La Scala in Milan, called the incident ''an insult not only to him but to artists generally!" Hastening from Zurich...
...Niceto took this as a personal insult. He renounced the Dictatorship and King Alfonso to boot, pledged himself and his entire fortune to the Republican cause. Last December he was jailed as an instigator of the abortive Jaca revolution (TIME, Dec. 15). Released late in March, he became Provisional President of Spain three weeks later. World chancellories last week counted up the results of his first ten days in office...
...thank me!" roared Judge Halsted L. Ritter. "To thank a court or jury for doing its duty is an insult. Your fine is raised...