Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never felt the need of a bodyguard as he travels about India. Recently however, demonstrators in a Calcutta suburb booed at the wizened little old man. One even dared to throw a shoe which barely missed the Mahatma, hit his private secretary. This is India's worst insult. Later, the Mahatma was greeted at a station by a group carrying black flags-another Indian symbol of rebuke...
Goings-on of other characters afford the most protracted and admiring insult to the British upper classes that a notorious Irish ingenuity could concoct. As a novel, Going Native has even less form than probability; it becomes remarkably absent-minded in the last 100 pages; but till then it can be read with pleasure for Gogarty's bland, black irreverence, his loving literary effrontery and his careful bounty of wisecracks. Such...
Britain's reply when delivered was tailored not like a kimono but in the calm coat-&-pants language of international law. It set off new Japanese frenzies. It was "legalistic," said the Foreign Office, and did nothing to assuage Japan's dignity, injured by this insult "right in her front garden" - "on her very doorstep." Properly angered, Japan tightened the Tientsin blockade - stopped the passage of food into the British concession, turned on the juice in the encircling electrified barbed wire. None but Italians and White Russians were allowed to take food into the concession. Concession prices rose...