Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...STATEMENT THAT THESE MEN "SNEER" AND "WAIT FOR THE DAY THEY SIGN ON FOR DOUBLE PAY," UNTIL AND UNLESS IT CAN BE PROVED TO BE A GENERAL PRACTICE, IS AN INTOLERABLE INSULT TO BRAVE MEN VOLUNTEERING FOR DANGEROUS DUTY...
...Consulate organized a Bund in Winnipeg and financed a violent Nazi newspaper. Ausborn was beaten up by Bundist thugs. Once he made an effigial tombstone for Hitler, which was to be carried in a May Day parade. Police made him take the name off, because it was considered an insult to the head of a friendly nation. A city detective roughed him up for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets and told him to quit being a nuisance: "The only people who are harmed by Hitler are the Jews and Communists...
...Alfonso XIII paid a visit to Madrid's School of Fine Arts. Unknown to the King, students were rushed from room to room to give the monarch the impression that the school was packed. Dali declares that he was so infuriated by this insult to the King that he waited until the school was empty, locked himself in the sculpture classroom, turned the faucet on full force. Says Dali: "My idea was very simple: to cause a great inundation of plaster. I used all the four sacks of plaster that were in the room. . . . As the [plaster] was greatly...
Whether the unfortunate use of the term "nurses' aides" is to be chalked up against Dr. Emily T. Burr as well as TIME'S editor ... I feel that it is an insult to the many women who have become Red Cross Nurse's Aides...
...many sounded like groans and cackles. Only a few oldsters such as Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss and Sergei Rachmaninoff, clung to the traditional sonorities. In Vienna dour Composer Arnold Schönberg led a whole school of younger men in what sounded to conventional ears like some weird insult. In Paris, Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Honegger and a group of Left-Bank revolutionists began imitating African tom-toms and hopefully setting restaurant menus to music. U.S. composers in the main followed the Europeans. Scarcely a tune was written by highbrows that anybody could whistle. Between them and the concertgoing public...