Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night abattoir victim, Don Cockell. There having been no reason for the first match, except a grossly commercial one, there is even less cause for a second slaughter. And when Weill says, with a straight face, that he is considering a return bout in London, that is the supreme insult to everyone above the third-grade moron class...
Like Louis Armstrong. The facts are somewhat different. The New York City medical examiner's record shows that he died of acute and chronic alcoholism, complicated by pneumonia. An attending physician called it "alcoholic insult to the brain." When Thomas arrived...
...once wrote, melodramatically but perhaps not inaccurately: "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval . . ." In the poems that will remain long after the last alcoholic insult to that skin he loathed, there are many victories for the angelic of the three Dylan Thomases: Do not go gentle into that good night...
...order to pay dues ranging from 500 to 10,000 francs to be used to spread the gospel of good humor, love and fraternity. Some 2,500 adherents joined the cause, but somehow the concierges of Paris still glared as fiercely as ever, telephone operators continued to insult callers, and the prostitutes on the Champs-Elysées went right on spitting "Papa" at anyone over 20 who rejected their blandishments. "Ah, well," murmured Psychologist Ranville, "perhaps we'll create a new spirit in the younger generation...
Gronchi bitterly resents the frequent charge that he is neutralist and antiNATO. Says he: "For eight years my name in Italy has been synonymous with Kerensky. For eight years they depicted me as an enemy of the Atlantic way, thus insulting and offending me in three ways: first as a sensible person, second as a good Italian, third as a politician. To call me a Kerensky is to insult...