Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meantime we are treated to the edifying spectacle of the United States government expending great energy to harry and chase a sick and broken old man all over the face of Europe. Granting that Insult was guilty of a certain amount of fraud in his transactions--and the evidence on this point is by no means clear--he was certainly no more guilty than many of his colleagues, none of whom are behind bars as yet. It is also difficult to see just what will be accomplished by hauling Insult back to Chicago for trial, for if he received...
...Christmas Eve. The piece for the next day came over the desk when the undersigned was feeling as a person working on Christmas Eve does feel, and it got only a cursory reading, a few paragraph marks and a head. Well, so Christmas Day, the Ledger published a gratuitous insult to the Virgin Mary, it being Miss Mayo's opinion of most Filipinos' opinion of the Christian Madonna...
...Herald Tribune: "Here is . . . the first time that the President has publicly given support to the 'Smear America' campaign in which so many of his aides have participated. America has been made familiar with government by edict. Is it now to be subjected to 'government by insult?' The episode is of importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare cross the path of its policies. . . . We hope that Mr. Roosevelt will see fit to apologize to the Press of the nation...
Marks used to cover 60 saloons and beer halls a week. In one he observed a tough customer bothering a raw young waitress who, bursting into tears, exclaimed: "No one would dare insult me if my brother Jack was only here." And she added, "My mother was a lady." Instantly Marks's pencil was out and another song was born...
...mother was a lady like yours you will allow, And you may have a sister who needs protection now- I've come to this great city to find a brother dear- And you wouldn't dare insult me, Sir, If Jack were only here...