Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began, known as the "Rotten Cabbage Rebellion," between the students and the food they were being served. Among other incidents, this conflict once found 600 grains of tartar emetic applied to the College's morning coffee (with disastrous results), and a students suspended after he "did publickly in Hall insult the authority of the College by hitting one of the Officers with a potatoe." By 1816 the expanding collection of books and apparatus squeezed out the Commons to the newly-erected University Hall, and the whole second floor became the library, the old chapel downstairs became a recitation room...
...veterans arranged a new memorial service to repair Mayor Coëne's insult. The Communists organized a counterdemonstration, but 200 Republican Guards and 300 soldiers, sent to Montataire by the government, saw to it that the Reds did not interfere with the ceremony. In the cemetery, the Depestel family and French veterans laid bouquets of violets on Gaston's grave...
...dare you, how dare you ... insult our leading prima donna!" sputtered one irate reader. "You Americans are obsessed with film star glamour." Flared another: "Perhaps in America they enliven Butterfly with troupes of performing dogs." From still another: "You silly little man . . . my advice to you is to take the next plane back...
Dreamboat (Mon. 9:30 p.m., ABC) is an unsponsored newcomer with songs by Doris Drew, music by Rex Maupin's orchestra, and some insult dialogue imitating the exchanges between Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, all pasted together on a storyline about a river showboat...
...Ever?" at the Cambridge High and Latin School last night. A capacity crowd of over 1,500 saw and heard Al Capp, creator of L'il Abner, Bosley Crowther, New York Times movie editor, Faye Emerson, TV and movie star, and Spros Skouras, president of 20th Century Fox, alternately insult and kiss one another as they scored and praised the motion picture industry...