Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gunboat was gone by the time a British frigate and destroyer arrived on the scene. To add insult to injury, Chinese Communist shore batteries on a near by island opened fire on Her Majesty's vessels. The best they could do was return the fire, for five minutes...
...Jacob Epstein, one of the greatest living sculptors, is a bullet of a man with an independent eye and a longstanding reputation as one of the bad boys of art. "The man in the street is a fool," he once declared. And the public has usually returned the insult; shocked art lovers once set on Epstein's early Rima, a lumpish, bas-relief nude, and painted it green. But in recent years, both Sculptor Epstein and his critics have mellowed a bit. Last week, after a look at a Tate Gallery show spanning his life's work, London...
...Republican, I feel you insult the intelligence of your readers by your laudatory, transparently one-sided, and gossipy story on Senator Nixon [TIME, Aug. 25]. Is not his congressional record a bit more important than the fact that he lived in a shack during law school, and his skill at getting the vote by using nonpolitical issues? What about his record concerning: housing, price control, governmental reorganization, taxation, the steel dispute and tidelands...
...shaving her head every summer so as to give her playmates less of a hand-hold when they locked in combat. One day, a cattily candid friend remarked to Mrs. Hepburn that it was a pity Kate was such a frail child. Kate, seeing through the pity to the insult, charged across the lawn and hurled herself headlong against a tree. If that wasn't a sufficient answer, Kate figured it should have been...
Director George Cukor describes Kate's early attitude toward Hollywood as "sub-collegiate idiotic." She went out of her way to insult everyone in sight, at sight. She told reporters that she couldn't remember whether she was married or not, but that she did have five children-"three of them colored." She wore a baggy sweater and patched blue dungaree pants (now a national fad but in 1932 a scandal), and read her mail sitting on the curb outside the studio...