Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friendly office Mr. Insull had tried to perform for acquaintances from home, or if it had been an impetuous idea of his own, Mr. Insult's visit did his friends and himself little good. For Chairman Oscar Charles Merrill and Vice Chairman Henry J. Pierce (Electric Bond & Share) of the U. S. delegation both speedily announced that they would never presume to ask Ambassador Sackett to alter his speech, nor would they condone any one else so presuming. Whereupon Mr. Insull called again at the Embassy. Soon it was announced the speech would be delivered as written. Mr. Insull...
...quarrel: the perambulating Fascist theatre, grandiloquently known as "Car of Thespis." From distant Sardinia word reached the Vatican last week that the Car of Thespis was not only performing the works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most holy Feast of the Body of Christ, Corpus Christi, a legal holiday in all Latin countries...
...Insult to India." Vague though it is, the No. 1 section of the Simon Report slams the door on St. Gandhi's demand for independence now. It declares that the goal of British policy must be: "Progressive realization of responsible government in British India as an integral part of the Empire...
...championship which heretofore has been bestowed on me." Hearing the Tammanyites guffaw, President-elect Prestes laughed politely, though he does not speak English. In Brazil, where public greetings are taken seriously and must embody the flower of courtesy, such a "joke" would have been an insult and President-elect Prestes, understanding, might not have laughed...
...Gold Star Mother who happens to be colored I wish to protest against the gratuitous insult in the attitude of the War Department in segregating colored Gold Star Mothers. . . . Twelve years after the Armistice the high principles of 1918 seem to have been forgotten. . . . We who gave and are colored are insulted by the implication that we are not fit persons to travel with other bereaved ones. . . . We are set aside, Jim Crowed, separated and insulted...