Word: insulters
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...until the moment of conferring the decoration did the babbittry of Graz become aware of what metal it was composed. Then pandemonium broke loose at "this tinsel insult to Graz!" Leaping to his feet, the Herr Professor Doktor Guertler, former Minister of Finance, loyal citizen of Graz, roundly scored and cursed President Hainisch as a "jackass." While local patriots cheered him to the echo, he recited a noted expurgated verse from Goethe's "Knight with Mailed Fist," which is usually regarded as a model of obscene revilement...
...remains a pleasant travelogue of Ireland, "Irish Luck" is a great picture. Beyond that it is terrible. Knowing how we felt about Mr. Meighan, the producers added insult to injury by using him in a double role, first as an American policeman and secondly as an Irish lord. It reminded us of the time that Buster Keaton took the part of the entire audience, the orchestra, and the cast, in one of his earlier comedies. It was just about as convincing...
...Lansdowne: "In the second paragraph, where it states that my husband would take the Shenandoah anywhere, at any time for a military purpose. It is an insult to his memory to insinuate that he would do such a thing...
Helen nags Menelaus to have Pyrrhus come on a visit but he recalls to her that he had admitted one good looking young man to the house with no good result. Insulted, Helen ejaculates, "I left this house once, and I can do it again. . . . I'll stay on the one condition, that you insult me no more. Do you wish me to stay...
...quarrel while she was gone, but at that very moment Mary, piqued by an injustice, was twisting her small face in derision of her brother. "Monkey," she squealed, "you ole monkey!" Peter glowered, as he had seen them do in the movies. He knew how to avenge an insult. He went to his father's bureau, climbed up on a chair, took an automatic from the top drawer, shot his sister dead. Said he: "I am sorry, but I was awful...