Word: offending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times you hear words that offend you, always put it down as the fact that they do not come from the soul of the American people, but from the politicians, who do not represent the Nation...
...thunder is the gentleman from Ohio?" When no answer came, he put the motion and declared it carried. Those days are past forever. When Joseph G. Cannon was Speaker, the revolt of 1910 stripped him of his autocratic power; and Champ Clark, who succeeded him, did not care to offend anyone (because he had aspirations for the presidency) by pressing his authority. The job which Mr. Longworth is to take over is, thus, largely stripped of its authority. Some say that another strong man would remake it. But Mr. Longworth, although able, has not the personality of Czar Reed...
...revenue if the bill was to become law. Congressmen had a choice of passing a bill which would fulfill their promises to postmen-voters, which every one knew the President would veto, or of passing a bill which would satisfy the President's demand for revenue, but would offend various users of the mails. The House favored the latter course. The Senate was inclined to the former. The publishers had risen in violent protest when it was suggested that their rates be raised. Both Senate and House yielded to them. Farmers' organizations protested against raising parcels post rates...
...associates here, have never subscribed to the view that bad taste is any the less offensive because it is metropolitan taste. To me, urbanity is the ability to offend without being offensive, to startle composure and to deride without ribaldry. The editors of the periodical you forwarded are, I understand, members of a literary clique. They should learn that there is no provincialism so blatant as that of the metropolitan who lacks urbanity. They were quite correct, however, in their original assertion. The New Yorker is not for the old lady in Dubuque...
...Dial bowed to the force of Senatorial opinion: "Not having made the speech with any intent to offend anybody, I withdraw it from the record...