Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that one American in Hankow was spat upon during the troublous times in January, and it is possible that your reporter has erred in confusing this incident with the one recorded in your journal. But, although there is no doubt an implied insult in the act of expectoration upon one's person, yet surely this is a matter less grave than the flinging of dung, at least so far as the recipient is concerned...
...when it refers to his trade or profession. Had you designated Mr. Smith as "Lawyer Smith" or "President Smith," I would have disregarded the whole matter. I am not so narrow-minded. But when it refers to a man's religious convictions, I think it is a gross insult and is deserving of an apology on the part of the offender. Had you referred to Cardinal Hayes or Rabbi Wise as "Catholic Hayes" or "Jew Wise," I dare say that you would have been subject to like censure, and it probably would have had some effect on circulation...
Please cancel my subscription at once. I can no longer tolerate your sneering articles regarding Catholic persons and affairs and I do not understand how any self-respecting Catholic can remain your subscriber. Your articles under RELIGION this week are an insult to nine-tenths of the Christian world for nine-tenths of that world is still Catholic. Your policy is a poor...
Lurid paraphrases of this headline were carried by scores of newspapers above a lead which gave in indirect discourse a proclamation by General Pai Tsung-hsi, the Nationalist commander in immediate control of Shanghai. His actual words were, in part: "The Chinese people must not insult the foreigners or destroy their property. . . The people must distinguish between combatting foreign imperialism and attacking foreigners. . . . But we Chinese now have awakened and Shanghai, the greatest commercial centre in the Far East, will become not only a strong base for Chinese nationalism but for world revolution...
...tradition of English statesmanship set by Peel and Gladstone, which set principle before party, reform before office, or toward the precedent set by the first President of the United States who intentionally gave up the reins of power at the end of his second term. But it is an insult to the electorate to allow mere vote-getting to be so brazen...