Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other officeholders" are two members of the de Valera Cabinet who made the Governor General their "target" by leaving a dance at the French Legation in Dublin directly he appeared. This insult, according to virtually the entire Press of Great Britain last week, was intolerable. The Governor General was lauded for disregarding President de Valera's official and mandatory advice that he keep his wounded feelings to himself. Mr. de Valera assured His Excellency that if he will give timely notice of his public movements to the Free State Cabinet in the future, "no more such incidents will occur...
...play the gazook or freedom from halitosis; and the Lucky Strike company now has the effrontery to tell the American people that inhalation of their weed is free from the harmful effects present in all other cases. Some advertisers seem to feel that they can indeed fool and insult all of the people all of the time...
...service by describing the plight of the advertising man of principle, who must compete with his less ethical collegue, and by placing the responsibility for our charlatan industrial life where it belongs, on the public. When, and only when individual consumers resolve not to buy any article whose advertisers insult his intelligence, will this profession become what it should be, "nothing but the dissemination of the truth...
...Shannon believed personally that there was a fraud, and in fact the court did not find a fraud. But Col. Shannon was fellow counsel in a case in which the procedure was a charge of a legal fraud. Col. Cash took this and the evidence adduced as an insult against his wife and he and his brother-in-law each issued a challenge to both lawyers. Neither accepted...
...speak of changed and changing attitudes toward Prohibition I cannot help thinking about the word 'Wet,' and how different is its meaning today from what it was intended when first the term was hurled at the opponents of the 18th Amendment. It was intended to be an insult, a sneer, or at best a flippancy. It was intended to indicate a person of uncontrolled appetite, a poor creature who placed thirst ahead of responsibility to his neighbor...