Word: insulters
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...Christmas Eve. The piece for the next day came over the desk when the undersigned was feeling as a person working on Christmas Eve does feel, and it got only a cursory reading, a few paragraph marks and a head. Well, so Christmas Day, the Ledger published a gratuitous insult to the Virgin Mary, it being Miss Mayo's opinion of most Filipinos' opinion of the Christian Madonna...
Marks used to cover 60 saloons and beer halls a week. In one he observed a tough customer bothering a raw young waitress who, bursting into tears, exclaimed: "No one would dare insult me if my brother Jack was only here." And she added, "My mother was a lady." Instantly Marks's pencil was out and another song was born...
...mother was a lady like yours you will allow, And you may have a sister who needs protection now- I've come to this great city to find a brother dear- And you wouldn't dare insult me, Sir, If Jack were only here...
...Supreme Court in Madrid last week went the case of five U. S. citizens, one a woman, who were jailed in Palma, Mallorca, last June for hitting and insulting a member of Spain's crack police, the Guardia Civil (TIME, July 24). All five had been acquitted last October by a military court. But custom required a military auditor to review and confirm such a verdict. It happened that the auditor was a monarchist and not above embarrassing the Republican government's diplomatic relations with the U. S. He appealed the case to the Supreme Court, irascibly demanding...
...firmly planted on her piano stool, tossing off encore after encore even after Richard M. Tobin came on stage to present her with a string of pearls from the Orchestra Association. Backstage Conductor Molinari snatched up his hat and overcoat, started for the door muttering: "It's an insult to the orchestra, the most confounded impertinence I ever heard of." It took great diplomacy to make him come back, finish the concert...