Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Life (Wed. 9 p.m. E.S.T., CBS) was fighting it out for 75th place in the Nielsen-Ratings with such tired old rivals as Roy Rogers, County Fair and Dr. I.Q. Last week, by sitting on a stool before a microphone and trading comment and insult with a succession of quiz contestants, Groucho had piloted his show in a skyrocketing climb to sixth place...
...smart guys, hooligans, louts or racketeers. The Mugs are the people who are some use in the world: the people who do something worthwhile for others instead of just grabbing for themselves all the time. Of course the Spivs snigger at that. They use the word Mug as an insult. 'Aren't they mugs?' they say about people who believe in living for something bigger than themselves...
...Hang me! Hang me if you want," screamed Yvette at this final insult, "but make him stop!" "Shut up," implored her long-suffering father. After that, Yvette cut him dead. At trial's end, Judges Cohn, Speight and Elegant concluded that Yvette was undoubtedly "a psychopathic personality," but sane enough to know what she was doing. They sentenced her to 15 years in the U.S. reformatory at Alderson, W.Va...
Salt Lake City's Deseret* News (circ. 79,589),published by the Mormon Church, ran a fiery Page One editorial last week denouncing a "flagrant, gratuitous and scurrilous insult to the people who laid the foundation of Utah's greatness...
Almost 30 percent of those polled said they used the library so little that they would not be affected by any change, while others echoed the statement of Betty Thompson '53, "Sort of an insult, but practical...