Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trio of sailors impersonated by Rags Ragland, Pat Harrington & Frankie Hyers-the last two on leave from Manhattan's locally famed "18 Club," where for some years they have assisted Comedian Jack White in making that institution a sort of petit palais of honky-tonk humor and personal insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan." They also gang...
...until two days later, after Washington had unofficially called the interview an insult, that Foreign Minister Matsuoka decided that perhaps he had talked too much. The Japanese Foreign Office explained that Mr. Matsuoka had been talking off the record to a "magazine artist," gave its "official" version of the interview...
...their 21-engagement South American tour, Conductor Stokowski's youths had downed a widespread impression that their brash, inexperienced good will would "insult" musically sophisticated South Americans. The orchestra played to full houses nearly everywhere. The tour was no picnic for the players, as most of their spare time was spent rehearsing. Stokowski, who took no salary for the tour, complained that enthusiastic South Americans had mobbed him for souvenirs-coat buttons, handkerchiefs, gloves. Only time he lost the Stokowski temper was in Montevideo, where the program carried a biography stating the old libel that his real name...
Some real jostling took place in the House of Commons at the foot of Big Ben's tower-the bitterest name-calling, insult-shouting, fist-shaking free-for-all that has taken place since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. The row started when the Prime Minister declined to answer questions on a secret fifth-column investigating committee headed by onetime Air Secretary Viscount Swinton, political godchild of Stanley Baldwin, who had been denounced by Laborites as a consistent Tory bungler. Doubting Viscount Swinton's competence and fearing that he might use his Committee against liberal elements in Britain...
...Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, the late Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N. got good & mad. Said he: "It represents a most disgraceful, sordid, disreputable drunken brawl wherein apparently a number of enlisted men are consorting with a party of streetwalkers. . . . This is an unwarranted insult. . . ." Painter Cadmus' canvas was promptly taken down...