Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haiti. Perhaps, said Secretary Kellogg, Mr. King might lose his hostility if allowed to visit Haiti. Within an hour President Borno cabled back that under no circumstances would he allow Mr. King to land on his shores. "Mr. King's utterances," said the Negro President, "are a personal insult to me and to my people...
...language of this note was not that of diplomacy. It was intelligible to the man in the street and clear to the man in the gutter. Had such a note been addressed to the U. S., French, or Italian Government by the British it would have constituted an insult, only to be avenged by war. Paradoxically the mild, peace-propagating Sir Austen Chamberlain was obliged to sign this note as Foreign Secretary. His was another slice of the Cabinet Compromise (see below...
Most of the present-day magazines and newspapers, in their Women's sections, offer pap that is an insult to feminine intelligence...
...father.? It was a revolting charge, which of course made me angry almost to an ungovernable extent. It was a charge which made my father out to be a foul sensualist and a foul hypocrite, and the charge was therefore a foul one! It was a deadly insult to every member of my family. A charge so foul and loathsome could only have been made by a foul-minded man, and I repeat that because of that he is a FOUL FELLOW! . . . That is my last word...
...customs revenues will most certainly be diverted from repayment of the foreign loans. Defy. The southern faction likewise retaliated upon Britain. Nationalist (southern) Foreign Minister Eugene Chen promptly broke off negotiations concerning the safety of Britons and their property in China (TIME, Jan. 24); and took the unprecedented and insulting course of ignoring the British Government and cabling over its head an appeal to the British Labor Party. Chen declared that "the British decline in Far Asia" will continue "until British Labor is entrusted by England with the task . . . of substituting the statesmanship of peace and productive work...