Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this case as in others, think it unnecessary for them to take an active part in the matter. They should not look at it merely as an offence against college property, however, which it is the business of the administrative board to deal with, but as a personal insult against them as Harvard...
Some call those who keep on their hats impolite. So they are perhaps, but thoughtlessly, unintentionally. The few who keep on their hats intentionally do so, not to insult us, but to show us off, to put us through our paces, for the amusement of those whom they are showing the sights of Harvard. By noticing them we please them and make ourselves tools for their amusement...
...even if our visitors are impolite and insult us by standing with hats on in our private dining hall, we have no excuse for repaying them in kind. We should not top their impoliteness with actions more insulting than their...
Nicholson being temporarily removed to Maryland, he was succeeded in Virginia by the unpopular Andros. He quickly became involved in a quarrel with Blair, and was removed for allowing an insult to the latter to pass unpunished. Nicholson resumed the reins of government which he held till 1704, being finally recalled for unbecoming conduct to men of high station in the colony...
...Readiness shown to think of war: Nation LXI, p. 458 (Dec. 26, 1895).- (2) General appeal to bellicose feeling: Senator Walcott in Cong. Rec. p. 976 (Jan. 22, 1896).- (b) Tends to pervert standards of national honor and greatness.- (1) Insistance on immediate forcible resistance to "anything like an insult," as a test of national honor: C. E. Norton in Forum XX, p. 649-651 (Feb. 1896); Wm. James in Cong. Rec. p. 461 (Dec. 31, 1895); Nation, LXI, pp. 420-421 (Dec. 12, 1895); and ibid...