Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Famed today mostly for Undergraduate Thomas Brown's off-the-cuff insult: I do not love thee, Doctor Fell The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone 1 know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell...
...World Bank, set up at Bretton Woods in July 1944. It was in this connection that White's general views prevailed over those of Britain's Lord Keynes. In a meeting once, White sneeringly called Keynes "Your Royal Highness." Keynes was offended at what he considered an insult to the Crown...
These relics were not meant as a vulgar insult to President Jefferson. They were zoological samplings from Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,* of the U.S. Army, out to explore Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Every U.S. schoolboy has heard of them, but the seven volumes of their journals have long been the private browsing grounds of historical grubbers. Now Pulitzer Prize winner Bernard (Across the Wide Missouri) DeVoto has cut them down to everyman's size, restored the great adventure to the common reader...
...playwright's rumored intimacy with his son, Lord Alfred Douglas, the splenetic Marquess of Queensberry, whose name is still associated with the Queensberry rules governing the manly art of pugilism, went to the opening night of Wilde's hit play, The Importance of Being Earnest, determined to insult him. Barred from the theater by a forewarned Wilde, he went later to the playwright's club and left a card: "To Oscar Wilde, posing as a somdomite [sic]." Wilde's friends persuaded him to bring charges for criminal libel. In the trial that followed, the marquess...
...sympathy or help of others. Autant-Lara's camera consciously stays outside his characters, giving the picture a two-dimensional effect that emphasizes the flat drabness to which the women have been reduced. Michele Morgan gives a hauntingly acute performance as the daughter impervious to either kindness or insult, and Francoise Rosay is suitably haughty as the mother...