Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something for the Pigeons. All the while. Sadakichi sharpened the talent for gratuitous insult that later so endeared him to his Hollywood buddies. When he met dapper Industrialist Henry Clay Frick, he told him to write his autobiography and call it The Tom Thumb of the Coke Ovens. Of some blueprints of Architect Stanford White he said: "To be improved upon only by pigeons, after the drawings become buildings." One figure escaped his misanthropic venom: Mary Baker Eddy. He called the founder of Christian Science "the greatest spiritual expression of the century," and was writing a verse drama about...
...revival of such untruths and the publicity accorded them by the CRIMSON is not only unfair to the freshmen, but is also an insult to the members of Eliot House. Especially to those of us who have helped to make up the character of this House for the past three years and have felt some pride in doing so, the application of such adjectives as "snobbish," and "aristocratic" is personally offensive...
...percent of the population cannot afford membership in an insurance program, the President's Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation reported in 1952. Charity hospitals for the needy too often add insult to injury. More serious still, those with enough money to pay for ordinary expenses cannot qualify for admission to free hospitals, yet they can afford neither illness nor the high premiums of health insurance...
...referred to his audiences as mostly middle-aged and middle-class ... I wouldn't insult this group if I were you, since it makes up the majority of our population...
...Miss Cordingly revered Roosevelt's memory and was eager to help anyone interested in him. She was also quick to defend him. Once John Mason Brown, drama critic for the New York Evening Post, wrote an article which seemed to Miss Cordingly to imply she took as an insult to Roosevelt, wore a wig. Stung by what she took as an insult to Roosevelt, she wrote Brown, demanding that he name his authority. Brown diplomatically suggested that her interpretation had been mistaken, explaining that he had been referring to a wig once worn by Ed Wynn in impersonating Roosevelt...