Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nations, the Senate announced its intention to stay at home and mind nobody's business but its own. Surely such an announcement is somewhat inconsistent with the Irish resolution, whereby the same Senate plunges its finger, nay, its whole fist into the international pie, and extends a wholly gratuitous insult to a friendly nation. Great Britain is fully as anxious to get rid of the Irish question as the Irish are to get rid of Great Britain. Some day may see the matter adjusted; but that day will not be hastened by the meddling of the Senate...
...officer upon whom the Congress of the United States has conferred the permanent rank of General must be considered to represent by the insignia and the uniform which he wears the military establishment and the prestige of the United States. An insult to such an officer is an insult to that military establishment, to the prestige of the United States and to every American soldier and citizen...
...reading the CRIMSON this morning, I was shocked to see a letter published that is an insult to all Harvard tradition and to true Americanism. To think that Harvard men should express such sentiments is unbelievable...