Word: offender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preserve American standards for all our inhabitants, whether they were the descendants of former generations residing here or the most recent arrivals, restricted emigration laws were passed. I should have preferred to continue the policy of Japanese exclusion by some method less likely to offend the sensibilities of the Japanese people. I did what I could do to minimize any harm that might arise...
...OUT?A fairly absorbing picture of the seamy lining to the royal purple of Washington politics, with a touch of bawdy house atmosphere that does not offend the eyes with its red light...
...There can be no suggestion that those acts could offend British prestige or dignity. They merely demonstrate rudeness, lack of calm, and should be treated with patience and pity...
...Convention in Cleveland, the Republican National Committee assembled there to decide contests between delegations. As usual, the chief contests concerned the delegations from the South where Negroes have a prominent part in the organization. And the Negro question was very significant- for Negroes have been migrating northward, and to offend them might lose the Republican Party large blocs of votes in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York. In the first contest a delegation of two was accredited from the District of Columbia, one of the two a Negro. In a contest over the delegates from Mississippi, Perry...
...Bible was freely quoted: "Six days shalt thou labor". . ."The laborer is worthy of his hire". . . "If any offend the least of these, better would it be if a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were drowned...