Word: insulters
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...bordering on nervous breakdown. I felt as though I had been subjected to an attentat, to an assault, but I had no desire to throw myself in adoration before the two masters [Disney and Stokowski] who were responsible for the brutalization of sensibility in this remarkable nightmare. . . . A supreme insult to the composers. . . . The perverted betrayal of the best instincts, the genius of a race turned into black magical destruction. ... If the man [Beethoven] who turned against Napoleon had lived to see the inside of a Nazi concentration camp his torturers might have driven him mad by the performance...
...sided teaching and is not evidence of a softness of the younger generation that makes it unable to be moved by considerations other than its immediate comfort and pleasure. The representation of President Conant, in the garb of the Pilgrims, as wildly and thoughtlessly brandishing a gun, is an insult to the President of Harvard, who undoubtedly thought long and earnestly before stating that he believed the United States should go to war. It is also an insult to the Pilgrims, who went through no end of hardship and suffering in order to obtain freedom. It was an insult...
...insult to injury, his father is a Yale graduate, a member of the class of 1905. This makes Frannie the first son of an Eli to lead a Harvard football eleven. He has three brothers, two of whom went to Notre Dame and starred in cross country...
...Over rough paper the quill began to scratch: "Lt. Henry Caldwell "Sir: Yesterday the Secretary told me that he understood one of the Lieutenants of the Navy had struck you. ... I can only say that a blow ought never to be forgiven and without you wipe away this Insult offered to the Marine Corps you cannot expect to join our officers...
...hang the trophies of 15 first places won by Marine Corps teams in 31 National Team Matches. Not far away, under the portraits of his 16 predecessors, hangs a framed copy of the letter written 140 years ago by old man Burrows, ordering a subordinate to wipe out "this Insult." Boots into Leathernecks. Last week the U. S. Marine Corps was winding up a recruiting campaign to bring its strength to 38,600 men (from...