Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schedules. In 1926, the Harvard Lampoon published a cartoon which implied that Princeton men were pigs. The result of this appalling insult was one of the most profound and bitter academic breaks in the history of sport. For four years, no Princeton teams played Harvard at any sport. After four years, contests in everything but football were arranged. Last winter, officials of both universities held an epochal meeting. The result was an agreement whereby Princeton will play Harvard at football for the first time in eight years at Cambridge, Nov. 3. Since Army and Navy settled their historic differences...
...incompleted pass into the end-zone gave the ball back to the Varsity on the 20 and the Caseymen revenged the insult by driving down the field for 80 yards and the initial marker. The second score was largely the product of the efforts of Messrs. Parquette and Black-wood, both of whom were in top form...
...your story "Baltimore Peace," (TIME, July 30), anent the controversy between Archbishop Curley and the Baltimore Catholic Review and the Baltimore Sun, you have the Review accepting, as an apology from the Sun for its insult to St. Ignatius' Loyola a statement which was rejected by both Archbishop Curley and the Review...
...Leitner, German Chargé D'Affaires, acting for Ambassador Luther who is at home in Nazi-land, called to make a vigorous protest. Mr. Hull was in a tight place. He could not admit that a U. S. Government official had said such things without offering Germany an open diplomatic insult. Nor could he give Germany customary satisfaction, by dismissing the New Deal's Samson. So he drew himself up and with the best grace possible, took refuge in the quibble which General Johnson had provided: the General had been speaking as an individual...
...grow out of the furious spat in Geneva last May between glacial, correct British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and humorous, mercurial French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Knowing nothing of Sir John's deep sorrow at his childless second marriage,* M. Barthou lapsed accidentally into offering a deadly insult to Sir John. The issue was a plan not devised by the Briton but to which he had given approval. "It seems, Sir John," flashed M. Barthou, "that you are a better godfather than you are a father...