Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sculptor Ziolkowski said the lines came from a letter Webster once wrote to John Jay, but to jittery West Hartfordians this looked like a personal insult. Sniffed the Hartford Courant: "If Mr. Ziolkowski chooses to use his statue of Noah Webster as a billboard on which to publish his feelings toward his fellow townsmen, that, of course, is his business." Wailed the West Hartford Metropolitan Shopping News: "Perhaps he has forgotten, as many men do today, the teaching of the Good Book which advocates in one place the turning of the other cheek...
...book, this is the most distinguished failure of the season. Its author willed it so. "This is a book only by necessity," he remarks, in a preface devoted largely to alienating the reader; "it is intended, among other things, as a swindle, an insult, and a corrective...
Warned that Harvard undergraduates may resent his forthcoming impersonation, the ex-pug replied: "If dat is a insult to dose gents ... let 'em sulk. I'm gettin' a tousan' a week, and what are they gettin...
Brooding over a fancied insult in connection with the order, Marie got a razor, slashed the Black Boy from its frame, toted it, with the other two pictures, to the Hampton Bays estate. There she built a fire in an outdoor oven, burned the Black Boy and Charles the Bold to a crisp, scattered the half-charred remains of the Wayfarer on the beach, where the tides of Shinnecock Bay soon swallowed them. The Black Boy was insured for $25,000, the other two for $19,000. Last week, recovering from a suicide attempt in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital...
...reported Mexican Cinesinger Tito Guizar after a trip to Cuba. "They followed me . . . kissed and hugged me ... cut locks from my hair . . . cut pieces of my suits . . . undershirts and underwear. . . ." Promptly Cuban film exhibitors banned Guizar from' the country's screens for what Cuba declared was an insult to the dignity of its women, ∙ ∙ John Steinbeck's Mexican documentary film, The Forgotten Village, was banned as "indecent" by New York's State Board of Censors. It contains childbirth sequences. ∙ ∙ Mae Murray, suing Billy Ros& for $150,000 for invasion of privacy, lost...