Word: insulters
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...advantages of eating American meals in the company of Americans. Growing expansive over a sandwich he told tales of strange and unusual hardships among Turks and Greeks. To a passenger who laughingly remarked, "I would trade my money for yours," he retorted, "That's the greatest insult you could cast on me. I have repeatedly said I have sunk everything I had in my business and that's the truth." Once he grew gruff: when a fellow passenger tried to photograph him. "My mug is my own property," he snorted. "You have no right to photograph...
...reflection on Author Feuchtwanger's character, TIME'S description traced a resemblance, intended no insult. Let it be beaver or squirrel for those who prefer...
...Government was furious. Nobody knew that Samuel Insull still had $10.000, unless, perhaps, it was the Ministry of the Interior. Premier Tsaldaris promptly forced Minister of the Interior M. J. Mountsourides to resign. Greek public opinion was outraged at this slur on the nation's honor, at this insult to a friendly power. Admiral Hadjikyriakos. commander of the Greek navy, radioed the malodorous Maiotis to return to Piraeus instantly. The ship swung round. Samuel Insull, smiling happily under his new black mustache, thought he was bound for Abyssinia, one of the few spots in all the world where...
...meantime we are treated to the edifying spectacle of the United States government expending great energy to harry and chase a sick and broken old man all over the face of Europe. Granting that Insult was guilty of a certain amount of fraud in his transactions--and the evidence on this point is by no means clear--he was certainly no more guilty than many of his colleagues, none of whom are behind bars as yet. It is also difficult to see just what will be accomplished by hauling Insult back to Chicago for trial, for if he received...
...Herald Tribune: "Here is . . . the first time that the President has publicly given support to the 'Smear America' campaign in which so many of his aides have participated. America has been made familiar with government by edict. Is it now to be subjected to 'government by insult?' The episode is of importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare cross the path of its policies. . . . We hope that Mr. Roosevelt will see fit to apologize to the Press of the nation...