Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...employee agrees . . . that he will not do or commit any act or thing that will tend to degrade him in society or bring him into public hatred, contempt, scorn or ridicule, or that will tend to shock, insult or offend the community . . . or prejudice the producer or the motion picture, theatrical or radio industry in general...
Everything else to one side, talk of hard times at the Christmas season would offend Hollywood's sense of dramatic values. Along Hollywood Boulevard, the street lamps are covered with those decorations which are not real trees, or even slavish representations of real trees, but interesting, frankly synthetic designs frosted in colored lights. And along Wilshire and Sunset the roadside stands are gay with little trees sprayed in pale blue, white, pink and lavender. At this time, Hollywood would like everyone, particularly itself, to wear a cheerful face...
Terming the plaque proposal of the Saltonstall group "totally unsatisfactory," the Alumni Committee advocating the activities center declared in its statement. "The Saltonstall Committee has attempted to resolve conflicting proposals by compromise: a plan which--intended to offend few--will please fewer...
...land they had seen. Their favorite American: Eisenhower; their favorite state: Colorado. They had asked innumerable and pointed questions about Negro problems in the South, about isolationism in the Midwest. When one Midwesterner asked about the Marshall Plan, a French girl replied: "I do not wish to offend, but to properly discuss the Marshall Plan one should not eat for two days before...
...chair": the explanation of humor to students. In the Atlantic appeared some letters Twain had written to his fiancée-and one to her father. Portrait of an anxious-to-please son-in-law-to-be: "I wrote you [the father] and Mrs. Langdon a letter . . . which will offend again, I fear-and yet, no harm was meant, no undue levity, no disrespect, no lack of reverence. The intent was blameless-and it is the intent...