Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter calls attention to the prosecutor's chief argument, based mainly on the alleged insult to the University, and maintains that a plea for clemency by the University would result in release as it did in the case of two girl rioters who were on trial a few weeks...
...usual, Mr. Arliss is himself in an excellent comedy production, and this time he is not hampered by the exactions of an historical role. Cabot Barr--for some reason not entirely clear, the last gentleman--is a crotchety old New Englander, who delights in insulting the lesser members of his family. And it is a compliment to his ability that he can insult them, for they are a pretty scaly lot. His sister Augusta (Edna May Oliver) is a scrawny, self-starting weeper; his only son (Donald Meek) is a fawning, scheming hypocrite, who spends his time making a record...
...Jesse James. But this is utterly meaningless, a mere hodge-podge of names and inconsistencies, mere guesswork. And nothing is said by way of clearing up this hopeless jumble. Or perhaps he was being witty? Further comment needless, such statements as quoted can be most irritating. They are an insult to one's intelligence. They forfeit any claim to intellectual integrity. Alfred M. Nittle...
...when the whiskey trust of America, decided to convert the U. S. into a vast barroom, and brothel to drag down the masses to a state of degeneracy, the wets of Mississippi, conceived and tried to pass the most eniquitous piece of whiskey legislation ever offered as an insult to the intelligence of a moral and spiritual-minded people...
Seldom has U. S. womanhood been more soundly affronted in print than it was last fortnight. And it was no unintended insult. Says Author Maurice Samuel: "I think a good slogan for my novel might be, 'A Novel that Women Will Hate.' " Propaganda for masculine superiority, Beyond Woman is written with a passion that some readers will think proud, others despairing. Author Samuel's theme, that man's spirit is continually struggling against the earthward pull of woman's nature, will tread uncomfortably hard on many a U. S. husband's tender...