Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tally. Iglehart added the third Yale score in the second canto when he soloed through the entire Harvard team and finally drew Ellis out of the net and put the puck in. McLennan scored the fourth goal in the last seconds of the period while Todd added the insult just two seconds before the final whistle blew...
Comments on the encyclical were not long in forthcoming. Onetime Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, champion of companionate marriage: "The rule proposed by the Pope is respected only by domestic animals." Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth control apostle: ". . . An insult to the intelligence of women." Rt. Rev. Benjamin Franklin Price Ivins, bishop coadjutor of Milwaukee (Episcopal): "Either birth control is generally practiced in America, or most women are incapable of motherhood." Humanist Charles Francis Potter: ". . . The new generation of Roman Catholics is quietly disregarding the teachings of that Church about birth control. There are fifty-four clinics in the United States giving...
...Evening American" with Mayor Russell as lead off man gave various citizens an opportunity to brand the ill-advised drawing with the telling marks of their disapproval. The Reverend Mr. Duval has attempted to stop the smoking mouth of Lampy with the dictum that the cartoon is "the worst insult ever perpetrated by a college publication against womanhood." William Randolph Hearst, tycoon of the "American" and one time Lampoon editor did not choose to comment. It only remains for the Boston press to hand out their ever ready award of bibs and lollypops...
...Madame (dachshund), Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte's Tobie of Meridale (Pekinese), and their friends, anxiety reigned last week. Above 70th, where Mrs. August Belmont's Lillium von der Til Til (German Police) is but one aristocrat among many, reigned positive consternation. Small comfort, indeed little short of insult, was it for the authorities to assert that no properly muzzled dog need fear for its life...
...into two groups, Socialists (pacifists) who not having seen the film were sure that All Quiet was the finest, most graphic war film ever produced; Nationalists and National Socialists (Fascists) who not having seen the film were equally sure that it was a slander on German courage and an insult to Germany's War dead. The Berlin premiere fortnight ago changed few opinions, but Herr Hitler's faithful Nazis took drastic means of expressing their disapproval. Not content with shouting denunciations at the screen, rioting in front of the theatre, they threw stink bombs over the balcony rail, loosed hopfrogs...