Word: offending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denver's zoo is not far from Capitol Hill, where solid Denver citizens have their homes. Such citizens Zoo Superintendent Clyde Hill would not wish to offend. But last week he sent them an ultimatum. A pack of dogs was prowling nightly through the zoo grounds, frightening the animals. One night they had killed a deer. Superintendent Hill had seen two police dogs, two bird dogs, one collie. All looked like nice, well bred dogs. He fired blank cartridges to frighten them away, but they returned. Unless Capitol Hill residents chained their dogs, said Superintendent Hill...
Husing says he is "sorry" but he should have said it during the Dartmouth game just after Wood had completed the pass and kicked the goal that won the game. He says he had no idea he was going to offend certain people, but as a matter of fact he has no idea how many people he did offend. He discounts any apology he may have intended by declaring that radio broadcasters must not be "constrained by deference to either side in the sports we cover...
...last year's Lysistrata due to the setting executed by Norman Bel Geddes. In Manhattan last week he turned his attention to staging and directing another revival, Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Geddes production lops a good-sized chunk off the original script, a move which will offend none but the most iconoclastic purist. Director Geddes has also provided an adequate cast. Raymond Massey, a cadaverous young man who brings from London fame as an actor-director-manager (The Man in Possession, Topaze, Grand Hotel) simultaneously makes his U. S. and Shakespearean debut in the title role. Stout Colin...
Father Malachy's actions may offend some rigidly Catholic readers, but that is not Catholic Author Marshall's intention. Father Malachy is supposed to be a sweet old thing; it is his sweetness (not to say sappiness) that may offend most. This is the way you catch him thinking about God: "Dear old Almighty...
...intention of many owners of yachts not to put them into commission this year lest they give offence to some of their friends who have been hard hit by the industrial depression, and also for fear it might offend in times like these. I have three friends who intend to keep their yachts at their docks this year for these reasons...