Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What do you mean by calling buyers of sweepstake tickets "simpletons" in your story on the running of the Grand National in the March 29 issue? You insult the backbone of this country. If I was a subscriber to your magazine I would cancel my subscription...
...Umberto which was to have represented His Majesty at the British Coronation. Reason: Vittorio Emanuele III and his subjects, including Il Duce, are united in considering His Majesty not only King of Italy but also Emperor of Ethiopia, united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure of a snub in Rome for British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond when he called to ask the Italian Foreign Office whether further...
...Minister, only an "explanation" accompanied by counterprotest against "malicious and untrue" U. S. press comments on Germany. The explanation, as reported in a semi-official communique, was: "If the language of some of the German newspapers went, perhaps, beyond the desired limits, this was due only to irritation. An insult to the American nation was by no means intended." The German press, which had banner-headlined Secretary Hull's "very earnest" regrets in response to the German protest against Mayor LaGuardia's crack week before, ignored both U. S. protest and Nazi explanation. At the same time, however...
...Paul Goebbels, Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment for Germany's 66,000,000 people. "Jewish lout . . . inciter . . . chief master of gangsters [who] having bribed him . . . have become still more insolent in murdering, looting and in kidnapping children. ... A Jewish ruffian . . . [who indulged in] an orgy of insult before a thousand Jewish women whom he fetched in from the streets...
After addressing the audience, in which representation of the fair sex was weak, as "Lady and Gentlemen," Professor Mather said that the Bill is a direct insult to the Corporation of Harvard, since it considers them incapable of selecting their own faculty without legal aid. He held that oaths do not affect loyalty, but "Loyalties change with external conditions," a theory first expounded by Karl Marx...