Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happen to be a classmate of Senator Fess and feel that what you say is an insult...
...return victorious; fare forth again, return defeated; fare forth a third time to fetch Princess Guzisur, Temugin's 14-year-old affianced bride. On the journey the old man dies. The sworn marriage contract is broken, for of what use is fatherless Temugin as an ally? Ignoring the insult, an old minister of state tricks halfhearted vassal princes into allegiance to Temugin, and year after year the youth leads them into desultory warfare with faint glory and inconsiderable plunder...
Your admirer of Dumas will not find fault with their work. Zound's, Mortiou's, diavolo's there are in plenty. Gentlemen insult each other with perfect grace, and draw their long steel on the lightest provocation. Madame De Chevreuse still plots this time in trousers. And if Richelieu is becoming feeble, Mazarini "the snake replaces the eagle" is on hand to put obstacles in the way of redoubtable Gascon gentlemen. The three original musketeers are missing but the loss is slight when their places are taken by Cyrano de Bergerac and the young Chevalier Tancrede, whose antecedents will surprise...
...Boston has been finding this out lately. Capt. MacDonald is secretary to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts. Last month, feeling facetious, Secretary MacDonald wrote and published a letter in which he called a fellow citizen a "Mexican General." The Mexican Consul at Boston took this as a national insult and demanded an apology from Governor Fuller (TIME, April...
Unless Prosecutor Taft succeeds in appealing the case, Killer Remus will go scot-free to dedicate the rest of his life, he says, "to stifling the insult to our statutes known as the National Prohibition...