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...orphan's pocketbook Or rob a widow's mite The Horrible Hemingways - That's We! When aged Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny sought to become a Hemingway, he was firmly blackballed. Undaunted, he gave a party. Knowing that the object of the Horrible Hemingways is to insult, dis tress, embarrass and in all ways annoy one's acquaintances as much as possible, he had the floor waxed so smooth that no one could stand up. He was elected. His daughter-in-law and granddaughter are also members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...insult to every loyal American to allow Criminal Fall's portrait to remain in the Department of the Interior, therefore I would appreciate information from a legal mind suggesting a legal remedy in this matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1931 | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...Fascist Directorate vigorously protests against the affirmation in the recent papal encyclical according to which the Fascist oath is taken for the sake of bread, or career, or life. . . . It rejects the grave insult. . . . The Fascist Party . . . is a fighting organization on a military pattern, which made a revolution and has the imperious duty of defending it against everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY-PAPAL STATE: Lies! Insult! | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Defeated before the Commission, Oswald Francis Schuette, RPA lobbyist, exclaimed: "An insult to the intelligence of Congress! ... It would be absurd to take the matter to the courts. Congress can work faster than the courts in protecting radio against this monopoly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: RCA Wins | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...most European countries to call a man a camel (French chameau, German Kamel) is merely to call him "stupid" or a "simp." Most insulting in French or German are compounds of animal names such as "You camel-toad-elephant-crocodile-rat-pig!" If a one-word insult is wanted it is hard to do better in French than saligod (filthy beast), in German, schweinpelz (filthy beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Camel Laugh | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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