Word: offending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaks of it as the Outer drive. That is a good name because it is a natural one and a descriptive one. The best place names in cities are the natural ones. . . . We cite the Lake Shore drive, Broadway, the Boston Common. These names are right. They do not offend by disproportion. They come naturally to the tongue. They have character. They belong to the thing. Why strain for a better name when the Outer drive is so certain the right...
...chicken salad', I am certain that no actress of the company will ever offend etiquette by ordering it a second time. Almost without exception, every entertainment we were invited to during the summer, supplied chicken salad among the refreshments. One becomes somewhat of a connoisseur of this dish after consuming it for several months. A little too much seasoning in it after a certain time sufficed to make the whole company irascible...
Before the Rules Committee are measures embodying the Vice Presidential idea of cloture (limitation of debate) by majority vote. Scarcely a handful of Senators favor these proposals. Hence the Rules Committee would certainly turn them down. Hence, in order not to offend the Vice President, the Rules Committee has not met ? not once during the entire session...
...part of the function of a conscientious press, a leaning towards either one party or the other is, however, a necessity. Partisanship which confines itself to the editorial page is as defensible as the party system itself. The professedly non-partisan journals have chosen to vacillate rather than offend their advertisers...
...treatment of this delicate problem, Miss Hurst will undoubtedly displease and even offend many, yet in spite of the fact that one may not care for her setting her characters, or her style, one must congratulate her upon this work which has, above all else, originality...