Word: insulters
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Although few Negroes are inclined to take direct action when their race is slurred, sultry Songstress Lena Home, dining in a Hollywood restaurant with her white husband, Musical Director Lennie Hayton, took umbrage when a nearby patron voiced an insult at the singer and her race. Pretty Lena responded with drumfire-a hurricane lamp, some dishes and three ashtrays. Her startled detractor wound up with a gash over his eye. By the time cops arrived, cooler heads had prevailed, and no charges were brought by either side...
Because government censorship kept the case out of the press, news of Galinsoga's insult traveled only by word of mouth. As it did, Catalan pride began popping. Thousands of copies of La Vanguardia were torn to shreds and scattered over Barcelona's streets. Signs appeared on walls, proclaiming (in Catalan): "Down with Galinsoga." As of last week, La Vanguardia's circulation had plummeted 30,000 to 120,000; advertising losses had forced the paper to cut back from an average of 55 to 28 pages a day. Driven to desperation, Publisher Galinsoga backed down, denied that...
...official of the French consulate in Boston recently labelled a proposed Law School Forum discussion between a French representative and a member of the Algerian provisional government as an insult to the honor of France...
...angrily, Nasser's newspaper Al Gumhuria retorted: "Suppose we make not one but a thousand museums to commemorate the horrible attack on us-what business is that of London's?" Stiffening his upper lip, Selwyn Lloyd took the view that Nasser could not have known of the insult in advance...
...already taken a ten-month leave from the studio to skindive for gold, is ready to take another. Wayde Preston ($500 a week) walked off the set of Colt .45, signed up as a partner in an airplane charter service. "Worst of all," he grumbled, "is the weekly insult-the paycheck. Heck, I can make more money laying bricks than acting...