Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britain and France and that more money was being spent on the Army than on education. Then someone suggested that the country should call in an international financial controller.? Raucous ranting filled the Assembly; indignation, even ire, was on every side; the Deputies had considered the suggestion an insult to their national sovereignty...
...marauding and mutilation is only to be expected. But that a college library, limited to a supposedly fair-minded group of students, and governed under the fairest rules and with the utmost freedom, should be victimized by utterly selfish abusers of privilege, lascivious commentators and petty thieves is an insult to the spirit of the University...
...advertising matter. Here are flaunted before the eyes of all passers-by, whether they would see them or no, placards for this brand of shoe polish or that type of manure spreader. Glaring in huge type, on highly-colored cardboard, these display cards are an eyesore and an insult to the majority of the students who use the library. However "commendable" they may be on the signboard, in the street car, or on the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, they are a shrieking anachronism in a college library...
...part of a nation that has long upheld the League, it is not entirely indefensible. The United States, with its Philippines, can readily appreciate the strength of the British assertion that the whole affair is purely a domestic one. Yet the quasi-independent status of Egypt might, without insult to reason, be considered as raising that nation slightly above the position of a British subject, and the British government might well, for the sake of the League, have restrained its eagerness to impress the oriental mind with an arbitrary gesture...
...first burst of disappointment, accused the judges of unfairness, picked up their weapons, and marched out of the hall singing Viva Mussolin!" By the next morning, of course, they had cooled down and had apologized, Yet there was a final ripple to the excitement that illustrates beautifully, considered themselves insulted by the Italians accusations-all, that is, save one American judge, who took the whole affair as a joke. Whereupon the Italian, hearing of his coolness, took that coolness toward their insults as an insult to themselves! A double-hitch on the problem of "honor" that goes far to explain...