Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Insult. In Butte, Mont., Dennis Lambert sued Tavern Owner W. B. Booth for $16,500, charged that Booth flew into a violent rage and beat him up after Lambert ordered a hamburger and removed the onions...
...York chuffed off that day, Williams found he was $2.40 short. ("One of those birds . . . can't read," he cracked.) Next day he broke even. By that time the story was in the newspapers, and New York Central officials were expressing their concern about Williams' insulting Chappaqua's 700 commuters. Surprised at all the fuss and resigned to human nature in Chappaqua, the unreimbursed agent tossed the telltale film in the furnace and philosophically dropped one last insult: "After all . . . only five out of 700 were thieves...
...first time since his Texaco Star Theater went on the air in 1948, Milton Berle slipped from his No. 1 TV rating for three weeks in a row. The new champion: Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, with 58% of the viewing audience. Adding insult to injury, Arthur Godfrey & His Friends won the No. 2 spot, with 55.8%. Berle (52.6%) is in third place, pressed closely by The Red Skelton Show...
Cornell added insult to injury yesterday in refusing to pay Colgate a $131.50 bill for damages done to the college during their football weekend last fall. Colgate, along with absorbing a 41-18 trouncing, found two of its buildings decorated by pranksters...
...Schumacher, who for months has shrilled that the Schuman Plan is a conspiracy of "capitalism, clericalism, conservatism and cartelism." In his absence, Erich Ollenhauer led the opposition. Ollenhauer, a 50-year-old career Socialist who spent the war years in Britain, rejected Schumacher's familiar tactics of snarling insult and rampant nationalism; his opposition was polite and professorial. Even Socialist imaginations were fired when Professor Walter Hallstein, who co-fathered the plan with France's Jean Monnet, painted a bold picture of a Europe no longer economically fettered by national borders, able "to equal what was possible...