Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such an admission must delight many authors outraged by a cacophonous conjunction of insult bearing words. Perhaps it will take the sting from an evil-flavored review to know that the critic did not believe his published opinion. In order to hold his job, the reviewer must grind out comment which will command attention. And obviously the easiest method of inspiring interest is the satirical. All mankind from the village gossip to the astute politician is quite willing to hear evil of its neighbor, be he friend...
...still quarrel. Most of them do so with a certain reticence. Respecting the dignity of their differences, they wage their wars out of sight. But last week the public was astounded to find, in a famed tabloid sheet, a reversion to the vilest of tactics of journalism-a gratuitous insult hurled at an honored newspaper builder, a sickly slur cast at a courageous weekly. Don C. Seitz, long business manager of the New York World, was the victim. The Outlook was the insulted weekly. The perpetrator of the offense was a scribbler of editorials for the New York Daily News...
...this she meant that before the World War Carol did all he could to thwart her schemes to marry him off to the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia; and that in 1918 he added insult to injury by marrying one Mlle. Zyzis Lambrino, beautiful daughter of a Roumanian officer, at Odessa. In 1919 Queen Marie secured the annulment of the morganatic Lambrino marriage, and tried to pack Carol off on a trip around the world, "to efface the memory of Zyzis." Carol thwarted her temporarily by shooting himself in the leg, and thus delayed his world tour of forgetfulness until...
...stupidly arrogant . . . letter signed Karl Busch which appears in your Dec. 14 issue, p. 2, fills me with a passionate desire to see its author violently thrown out of this country and forever barred from reentering. To twist a genuine tribute to Baron von Richthofen into a gratuitous insult to the American nation while enjoying its privileges as a resident is unforgettable and unforgivable. I would like to know Mr. Busch's street address. The American Legion and others might be interested...
...Amalgamated Union of Building Trades at once called a strike "in protest against this insult to our dignity...