Word: insulters
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...Engineers, never one of Massachusetts' greater baseball powers, have put together a 1-6 record so far this year, with perhaps the worst insult coming last Saturday when Bill Wicker of W.P.I. threw a no-hitter against them...
...into easing up on the Jews. Recently, after a galaxy of European intellectuals and Communist parties in France, Britain and the U.S. made strong, astonished protests, Pravda announced that the Party's Ideological Commission had criticized Judaism Without Embellishment for its serious mistakes and admitted that it "may insult the feelings of believers." Last week, Aleksei Adzhubei, the editor of Izvestia and Khrushchev's son-in-law, announced that the book had been banned and all copies destroyed...
Chicago is not the sort of place to take an insult lying down, particularly when the slur has crossed the Atlantic. "Injustice has been done to a great city," roared Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley, 61, when he heard that the city of Reading, England, has gone and changed the name of its Chicago Road to Sandcroft Road. Explained Reading's Mayor J.C.H. Butcher: "Residents of the street have nothing against the city of Chicago. They say they just got tired of being asked by visitors where they could check their guns...
...even tries to match her hosts insult for insult. Hostess: "We thought all Americans were gangsters." Honey: "And we thought all Englishmen were gentlemen." She usually loses anyway because they merely enjoy...
...temperament too much consideration can be dangerous. He despises get-well cards, with or without bluebirds, and the standard bunch of flowers: "I am sorry to have to cross pistils with the nation's florists, but unless flowers are quite inexpensive and casually arranged, they are an insult. The more beautifully arranged, the deeper the insult...