Word: offending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief problems in inventing a picture in which all three Barrymores could act was to think of one in which the brothers would not offend the public by pretending sexual interest in their sister. Rasputin not only solves this problem but gives two of the Barrymores a chance to execute their specialties. Lionel spits on the floor and regurgitates even more loudly than he did in Grand Hotel. Ethel wears a nurse's headdress like the nun's towel she had in The Kingdom of God and hums her lines so as to sound thoroughly regal. Director Richard...
...must have the courage to stand behind the findings of our commission!" cried Free State Senator Joseph Connolly in rich, impassioned brogue. "If the League hesitates or falters, fearing lest by its action it may offend, then as an organization built up by moral support of what is right the League will not survive and will not deserve to survive...
...Leipzig last week challenging the legality of the Schleicher von Papen putsch under the German Constitution. Embarrassed judges pondered over the week-end and then, to the surprise of few, decided in favor of the Cabinet. Even so, Chancellor von Papen was not quite sure enough of himself to offend the southern provinces unnecessarily. With Minister of the Interior von Gayl he hurried to Stuttgart, assured the Premiers of Bavaria and Baden that he had no intention of abolishing their states' rights, that martial law in Prussia was an emergency measure entirely and would probably be lifted...
Ministers should make large and frequent use of the radio. They should feel free to say anything they like so long as they do not slander or libel. If they offend some hearers, stations are many and dials are easy to twiddle. But-"The radio, as administered by the present Federal Commission, is a class agency, a political agency, and an agency without any real freedom...
...wrongfully. She intrudes her bishops in the ancient dioceses, and keeps up a system of active proselytism. The Eastern Church is reasonably outraged by these proceedings, wholly contrary as they are to catholic principles; and it behooves us of the Anglican Communion to take care that we do not offend in like manner...