Word: insulters
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...That is as far as he got! I was wild with rage and bitterness; I must insult him if it was my last act. I quickly reached up, grabbed hold of his long beard and gave it a violent jerk. To my unutterable horror his head came off in my hands and-I woke...
...those Insult's lights?" shrieked the Senator from Wisconsin. "Never mind, I can show him up in the dark...
...return to Christ, set the New York Chamber of Commerce simmering. Chamberman Irving T. Bush wanted to send the picture on tour as a tract, but some of his fellow members insisted that the title, applied to a pale Christ lifted above a shrapnel-spattered court, would be an insult to the Jews. Newspapermen described the controversy, divines dealt with the subject; critics alone kept silent. There was not much to say about technique, for over all the able and even powerful work of Mr. Inness Jr. is the shadow of the man who signed his pictures "Inness." "My first...
...surely, have never been denied by polish. See how he bows right and left, this gangling fellow, as lean as a lariat, in the old suit and the cracked shoes. His under lip protrudes like the point of a vulgar joke. His jaws move perpetually, up and down, chewing insult, chewing fancy, chewing humor, chewing gum. It is William Penn Adair Rogers, the diplomatist...
...Sherry, 71; after a long illness, in Manhattan. When he conducted his restaurant at Fifth Ave. and 44th St., many gentlemen had a way of saying to him, "I am dining 60 tomorrow," or "My daughter's dance will be on the 19th." Directions would have been a useless insult. He knew every debutante, dowager, rake, banker, and gourmet who lived in Manhattan between 1885 and 1915. He chose the wines that J. P. Morgan offered his guests. James Hazen Hyde, one winter night, gave in his restaurant a costume ball which is said .to have been the most brilliant...