Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...younger musicians get ahead, too. But last week in San Diego, where he paused between concert tours, Cellist Piatigorsky took a swipe at an old method of helping young artists-musical competitions. Said he: "I shall never again be a contest judge. Too often they are downright absurd. Why insult and discourage 14, let us say, to honor or help one?" The last time he judged a contest. Piatigorsky said, he and his fellow judge, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, heard a singer, a flutist, a clarinetist and a composer. "Now how can one say who is best among different categories...
Camel: "Exaggerated claims, with gross wording; lack believability and insult my intelligence...
Lucky Strike: "They insult my intelligence; too smug...
...death" because of his savage attacks on Broun. Soon after the review appeared. Pegler replied: "Like Broun, Reynolds was sloppy . . . his protuberant belly was filled with something else than guts . . . Reynolds was an absentee war correspondent . . . with the yellow streak glaring for the world to see." As an added insult, Pegler reported that Reynolds not only practiced nudism but also had the bad taste to propose marriage to Broun's wife on the way to Broun's grave...
Scelba's reply to this journalistic contumely was prompt and pertinent. "The inconceivable insult to the Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs in today's L'Unitá," he announced, "shows how far Italian Communism can go to act against the honor of its own government. This attack, which exceeds the limits allowed in political debate and which contains insults of unrepeatable vulgarity, has induced the Prime Minister to order that Communist newspapermen be no longer admitted to the offices of the Prime Minister or any other government ministry...