Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insult the Copacabana's boss ("He can't even spell da name!"). He may insult the menu ("Dere goes a load of ice with three olives. Twelve-fifty for dat load. Somebody's got to pay for da cocktail room!"). He may insult labor when a busboy knocks over a chair ("He's gotta pick it up. No one else can touch it. Union!"). He may challenge the whole situation when a microphone is lowered toward his expectant and famous nose ("Go ahead! Touch da nose! Just once! I'll sue da jernt for every...
...months, he said, he had heard rumors about these vessels, but only that morning (last Nov. 7) did he realize "the full significance and amplitude of what had been prepared." He appreciated the gesture, but "in its total implications it is an insult to me and to the Party. It is a gross contradiction of the spirit of the times and a serious blunder by members of a revolutionary party...
...This statement was a gratuitous insult to 24 Democratic Senators and 18 Republican Senators, who voted their convictions in support of the soldiers' voting bill. I have reliable information that this misleading statement will be sent through various Government agencies to the members of the armed services. . . . This will be done I am told under the guise of information to the soldiers, but the official dissemination of this misleading charge against United States Senators is a contemptible and indefensible act. The soldier who receives such a statement will believe that the facts alleged are true and, unless he receives...
...eternal gods, there are men in the South, and women, too, who will not permit men in control of our party to betray or to insult us in the house of our fathers. We will assert ourselves . . . and we will vindicate ourselves; and if we cannot have a party in which we are respected, if we must be in a party in which we are scorned as southern Democrats, we will find a party which honors us, not because we are southerners, and not because of politics, but because we love our country and believe in the Constitution from which...
Bland Explanation. Meantime Reuters gave a bland and cynical explanation for its beat: that its Lisbon office, technically not bound by any Allied restrictions, had merely demonstrated "spontaneous journalistic enterprise." This seemed to be adding insult to injury. Perhaps U.S. news services would take the cue and instruct their Lisbon and other offices to show a little "spontaneous American enterprise" hereafter...