Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Insult Adorable. Breneman, a fast-breaking, brash, unromantic character, wanders about among his audience with a microphone and asks personal questions: "Where were you born?" "How old are you?", etc. He does this with an air of detachment-yawns, looks bored, calls women by their first names, mispronounces their last names, scoffs at their provincialism (most of them are from small towns). They seem to like it. Women who cannot be present write him 1,000 to 1,500 letters a day. Some begin: "Tom, my precious...
...boom industry. . . . There is a quality of warm friendliness in all of the residents in Butte that fills everyone who has ever lived there with a desire to return. Butte is proud of its colorful past, but to be looked upon as still a legend is indeed heaping insult upon injury...
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives finally took note of an ally named China. The House voted to repeal 15 minuscule Chinese Exclusion Acts which have been an irritation and an insult to the Chinese for 61 years. Hereafter, the Chinese would be specially favored among Asiatics. Like Europeans, Chinese immigrants would be allowed: 1) to become naturalized citizens, 2) to enter the U.S. on a regular yearly quota basis (2% of the immigrant's nationals residing in the U.S. in 1890, which, in China's case, totals 105 a year). Passed along to a receptive Senate...
...asked for a minimum $3-a-day wage increase. A special Government Railroad Labor panel, considering the case from every angle, after an interminable length of time gave them 4? an hour-32? a day-instead. Economic Stabilizer Fred M. Vinson hurriedly approved the raise. But the unions cried "Insult," turned the proposal down...
While Harry Sinclair has his "soap" (his favorite word for cash in the bank), Standard thus has lost in both pride and purse. Meanwhile, to add insult to injury, it looks as if the British-whose original stake in Mexico (mainly Shell's) was estimated at more than that of the U.S.-may get back into booming Mexico. While the British Foreign Office still maintains a correct and haughty silence about the principles of expropriation, the oil industry is buzzing with rumors that British oil companies may make a realistic new deal to go in and operate their former...